eng The recent boom in translations of Antônio José da Silva, o judeu Krummrich, Philip info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2010 Traducció teatre portuguès Literatura jueva Translation Antônio José da Silva Portuguese theater Jewish literature 1611 : revista de historia de la traducción http://ddd.uab.cat/record/65341 oai:ddd.uab.cat:65341 Tots els drets reservats http://www.europeana.eu/rights/rr-f/ This article examines a curious phenomenon: the appearance of six translations of works by the eighteenth-century Portuguese comic playwright Antônio José da Silva during the last twenty-two years, when there had been virtually no translations of his works in the previous two and a half centuries. The article examines various possible explanations; it offers no firm conclusions, but suggests some possibilities for further study.