Our company offers the highest standard of Hebrew, Yiddish, Arabic and French translations, performed by professional, mother-tongue translators.
Josephine Bacon, who runs the company, is a veteran Hebrew-to-English and English-to-Hebrew translator, with 45 years experience in Israel, the United Kingdom, Cyprus and the United States, where she has worked as a legal translator, medical translator and literary translator.
As a translator, she worked at the Prime Minister’s Office and was one of only two translators in the whole of Israel who were authorized to translate cabinet communiqués into English. She is also the only professional Hebrew-English simultaneous interpreter in the whole of the United Kingdom, and one of the few simultaneous interpreters in the world who interprets French-Hebrew-English in all directions. Her degree is in Semitic Languages (Hebrew, Arabic, Aramaic, Jewish History).
She also speaks German, Russian and Swedish. She is the
author of several books and articles on Israel and Jewish
history. She is a voiceover artiste in English, French and
Hebrew (British Equity member) and worked as an announcer
at Kol Israel Israeli Radio. She was the first woman to read
the news on commercial radio in the United Kingdom (voiceover
recording available on request). Her voice has been heard
on ABC, CNN, BBC and SKY News as a simultaneous interpreter
of French and Hebrew breaking news.
For more information call us on: 00 44 (0) 20 7278
9490 or
E-mail: info@hebrew-translations.co.uk
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