Introduction to Old Yiddish literature / by Jean Baumgarten ; edited and translated by Jerold C. Frakes

Publication | Library Call Number: PJ5120 .B3413 2005

Uniform Title: Introduction à la littérature yiddish ancienne. English
Format: Book
Author/Creator: Baumgarten, Jean.
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005
Includes bibliographical references (p. [391]-444) and index
Language: English
External Link: Table of contents

Physical Description: xviii, 459 p. ; 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 Authors/Editors: Frakes, Jerold C.
ISBN: 0199276331
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [391]-444) and index.
Subjects: Yiddish literature--History and criticism.
Bible.--O.T.--Yiddish--Versions.
Jewish religious literature--History and criticism.
Tehinnot.
Ethics in literature.
Levita, Elijah,--1468 or 9-1549.
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