Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Since When Is Fran Drescher Jewish? -- Chapter One. Nation in Translation: The (Im)Possibility of the Local? -- Chapter Two. Indigenizing Texts: Television Translation as Cultural Ventriloquism -- Chapter Three. Dubbing Yiddish, Hidden Rabbi: The Nanny in Translation -- Chapter Four. Dubbing The Simpsons: Or How Groundskeeper Willie Lost His Kilt in Sardinia -- Chapter Five. The Sopranos in Italy: Or "Why Should We Care? We Have the Real Mafia Here!" -- Conclusion. Translating Stereotypes: The Cultural Politics of Reformatting -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.