LORRAIN FEDERMAN326 Turtle Dove Drive
Orange Park, Florida32073
Tel: (904) 573-3604
Fax: (904) 317-2954
Hebrew–English TranslatorEmail:
Specialization: legal material, including contracts, litigation, judgments, estates
Professional Experience
2001 - Freelance TranslatorOrange Park, Florida
Translation and editing of a broad range of material including:
legal, commercial, marketing and academic texts, literature, newspaper articles, promotional material, personal documents and product packaging.
1993 – 2001Quality Translations M.P. (1992)Tel Aviv, Israel
(Israel’s largest translations company)
Head of English Desk
Translated a wide variety of material from Hebrew into English, including: legal, commercial, marketing and academic texts, literature, newspaper articles, promotional material, personal documents and product packaging.
Edited the Hebrew to English translations of the company’s other translators.
Conducted seminars for translators and editors.
Mentored the company’s legal translators.
1992 - 1993Kashat TranslationsTel Aviv, Israel
House Translator and Editor
Translated and edited a broad range of material (as above).
1991 - 1992Hever HametargemimTel Aviv, Israel
House Translator and Editor
Translated and edited a broad range of material (as above).
1988 - 1991Davidson Aluminum, Inc.Ra’anana, Israel
(Israeli subsidiary of the US company)
Simultaneous and consecutive interpretation at business meetings between the American executives and Israeli clients (Israel Aircraft Industries, Israel Military Industries, et al.). Translated all legal documents, financial dealings, correspondence, etc.
1987 - 1988Eini Bros.Azur, Israel
Simultaneous and consecutive interpretation at business meetings between the Israeli owners and foreign parties. Translated all legal documents, financial dealings, correspondence, etc.
1984 - 1987Universal Trade and Finance Ltd.Tel Aviv, Israel
Executive Assistant to Gen. (Res.) Motti Hod (former Commander of the Israel Air Force and President of El Al, who also served as Chairman of Israel Aircraft Industries at that time).
Responsibilities includedtranslation of all legal documents, financial dealings, correspondence, etc.
Translation dictionaries used in my work
Below are some of the titles in my extensive reference library:
- Moses, Eliahu, Advocate. Legal Dictionary Hebrew-English. Tel Aviv: Meiri, 1995.
- Shaked, Elisheva, Advocate and Hacohen, A. Advocate. Legal Dictionary, Hebrew- English / English-Hebrew. Tel Aviv: Sifri, 2000.
- Black, Henry C. Black’s Law Dictionary.St. Paul: West, 1995.
- Avneyon, Eitan. Dictionary of Economics, Business and Administration Terms,
Hebrew-English. Tel Aviv: Eitav, 1992.
- Burton, William C. Burton’s Legal Thesaurus.New York: McGraw-Hill, 1998.
- Trattner, Carola and C. Allouch (ed.). Business Dictionary, Juridical and Economic,
Hebrew-English / English-Hebrew. Rosh Ha’ayin: Prolog, 2001.
- Avneyon, Eitan. Dictionary of Securities and Stock Exchange Terms, Hebrew-English.
Tel Aviv: Eitav, 1993.
- Dvir, Yochanan. New Dictionary of Technology, Hebrew-English. Kibbutz Lahavot
Habashan: Technical Publications, 1994.
- Burla, Yair. Dictionary of Military Terms, Hebrew-English. Tel Aviv: Dvir, 1988.
- Melamed, Ezra Zion. Aramaic-Hebrew Dictionary. Jerusalem: Feldheim, 2001.
- Dictionary of Diplomatic Terms, Hebrew-English / English-Hebrew. Jerusalem:
Academy of the Hebrew Language, 1999.
- Visual Dictionary, Hebrew-English / English-Hebrew. Jerusalem: Carta, 1992.
- Dictionary of Medical and Health Technology, Hebrew-English.Jerusalem: Carta, 1991.
- Alcalay, Reuben. The Complete Hebrew-English Dictionary. Tel Aviv: Hemed, 1996.
- Inbal, Shimshon. Hebrew-English English-Hebrew Dictionary.Jerusalem: S. Zack and
Co., 1995.
- Sutcliffe, Andrea J., Ed. The New York Public Library Writer’s Guide to Style and Usage.
New York: Harper Collins, 1994.
Languages
- Native language: U.S. English
- Hebrew: Native fluency
References provided upon request.
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