by Jean Baumgarten ; edited and translated by Jerold C. Frakes.
New York :
Oxford University Press,
2005.
1 online resource (xviii, 459 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-444) and index.
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.
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This study opens up to a more general audience the cultural richness of Yiddish studies that stretches from its beginnings in the Middle Ages to the mid-18th century. The literature spans genres, from love lyric to kabbalistic treatises, and from travelogue to Renaissance adventure epic.
Introduction to Old Yiddish literature.
0199276331
Introduction à la littérature yiddish ancienne.
English
Levita, Elijah,1468 or 1469-1549.
Levita, Elijah,1468 or 1469-1549.
Bible., Old Testament., Yiddish-- Versions.
Bible., Old Testament.
Ethics in literature.
Jewish religious literature-- History and criticism.