- Additional Authors
- Frakes, Jerold C.
- Description
- 1 online resource (xviii, 459 p.)
- Uniform Title
- Introduction à la littérature yiddish ancienne. English (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Introduction à la littérature yiddish ancienne.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [391]-444) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2005001825
- OCLC
- ssj0000182802
- Author
Baumgarten, Jean.
- Title
Introduction to Old Yiddish literature [electronic resource] / by Jean Baumgarten ; edited and translated by Jerold C. Frakes.
- Imprint
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [391]-444) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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- Added Author
Frakes, Jerold C.