מתורגמנות כזירת תרגום תרבותי (עצמי חוזר): אוטואתנוגרפיה של מתורגמנות כנסים נוכח המלחמה באוקראינה

Cultural translation means a transformative dialog and negotiations with values, patterns of behavior and practices of minorities, including immigrants. In this autoethnographic paper, I focus on my experience as a Russian-speaking immigrant conference interpreter in Israel during the Russian war in Ukraine, deriving in sights regarding more general, social and cultural contexts. Highlighting the interrelation between translation and migration, I ask how this experience affects my multiple identities and how as an immigrant-interpreter I negotiate them. I argue that especially in times of crisis and war the interpreting activity of immigrants reveals processes of cultural self-retranslation, a broader metaphor applying the translation studies terminology, which refers to a continual multidirectional self-(trans) formation of immigrants. In this context, I discuss a challenged Russianness; challenged interpreter role boundaries; and a movement in-between the origin and the host countries within my interpreting activity and beyond it. (From the article)