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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc Geschichte 1500-1750 Prayers and devotions |
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Named Person: | Elijah Levita; Elijah Levita; Elijah Levita; Eliyahu Baḥur; Elijah Levita; Eliyahu Ba.hur. |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jean Baumgarten; Jerold C Frakes |
ISBN: | 0199276331 9780199276332 |
OCLC Number: | 57493582 |
Language Note: | Translated from the French. |
Description: | xviii, 459 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | The invention of a language: Yiddish among the European vernaculars -- The emergence of Yiddish literature and the crisis in Jewish society -- The printing, distribution, and audience of Yiddish books -- Bilingualism and the development of old Yiddish literature -- Yiddish Bibles -- Medieval epic and romance in Yiddish -- Elia Levita and the romanzo cavalleresco -- Books of morality and conduct -- Prayer in the vernacular -- Yiddish narrative -- Terrestrial suffering in a topsy-turvy world. |
Other Titles: | Introduction à la littérature yiddish ancienne. |
Responsibility: | by Jean Baumgarten ; edited and translated by Jerold C. Frakes. |
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Abstract:
Opens up to a more general audience the cultural richness of that broad and deep corpus of literature that stretches from its beginnings in the Middle Ages to the mid-eighteenth century. This book provides students and scholars of medieval, Renaissance, and early modern European cultures with a survey of the deep literary tradition in Yiddish.
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Jerold Frakes's translation and revision of Jean Baumgarten's history of Old Yiddish literature is a welcome addition to the limited library of books in English on early Yiddish language and literature; Baumgarten's book is the best available history of and introduction to Yiddish literature of the medieval and early modern periods. It is a work that anyone with an interest in the development of vernacular literature or in religion and literature in the medieval andearly modern periods should know. * David Elton Gay, Sixteenth Century Journal * Read more...
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