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A goy who speaks Yiddish : Christians and the Jewish language in early modern Germany

Title: A goy who speaks Yiddish : Christians and the Jewish language in early modern Germany / Aya Elyada.
Author: Elyada, Aya, 1977-
Publication: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2012.

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Description

xvii, 260 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture

Uniform Title

Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]- 253) and index.

Contents

Yiddish in the service of Christian theology. Introduction : Christian Hebraism and the study of Yiddish in early modern Europe -- Yiddish in the Judenmission -- "From the Jews' own books" : Yiddish literature, Christian readers -- Blasphemy, curses, and insults : Yiddish and the Jews' "hidden transcript" -- Ancilla theologiae : Yiddish as a Hilfsmittel for theological studies -- Conclusion : the study of Yiddish and Christian-Jewish relations in early modern Germany -- Yiddish in the Service of Jewish Deception. Introduction : Yiddish in the socioeconomic sphere -- The merchants' tongue : Yiddish and Jewish commerce -- The thieves' jargon : Yiddish and Jewish criminality -- Conclusion : Yiddish as antilanguage -- The Discourse on Yiddish in Early Modern Germany. Introduction : between Hebrew and German : the depictions of Yiddish in Christian writings -- German of the Jews : linguistic affinity and the politics of differentiation -- Yiddish and German in the Judenmission : the limits of linguistic adaptation -- Christian Hebrew and Jewish Yiddish in early modern Germany -- Conclusion : Yiddish-speaking orientals : language shift and the "Verbesserung der Juden".

Call Number

*PXS 12-1897

ISBN

9780804781930 (cloth : alk. paper)
0804781931 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2012014468

OCLC

788267788

Author

Elyada, Aya, 1977- author.

Title

A goy who speaks Yiddish : Christians and the Jewish language in early modern Germany / Aya Elyada.

Imprint

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2012.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture

Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]- 253) and index.

Research Call Number

*PXS 12-1897

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