Introduction to Old Yiddish Literature

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OUP Oxford, 2 de juny 2005 - 480 pàgines
Jean Baumgarten's Introduction to Old Yiddish Literature, thoroughly revised from the first edition and translated into English, provides students and scholars of medieval, Renaissance, and early modern European cultures with an exemplary survey of the broad and deep literary tradition in Yiddish. Baumgarten conceives of his work as the study of an entire culture via its literature, and thus he conceives of literature in a broad sense: he begins with four chapters addressing pertinent issues of the larger cultural context of the literature and moves on to a consideration of the primary genres in which the culture is expressed (epic, romance, prose narrative, drama, biblical translation and commentary, ethical and moral treatises, prayers, and the broad range of literature of daily use - medical, legal, and historical). In the field of early Yiddish studies the book will be the standard of intellectual breadth and scholarly excellence for decades to come. In this second edition, the hundreds of text citations and bibliographical references that are the scholarly basis of the study have been verified, and the citations translated anew directly from the original source.
 

Continguts

Yiddish among the European Vernaculars
1
2 The Emergence of Yiddish Literature and the Crisis in Jewish Society
26
3 The Printing Distribution and Audience of Yiddish Books
38
4 Bilingualism and the Development of Old Yiddish Literature
72
5 Yiddish Bibles
82
6 Medieval Epic and Romance in Yiddish
128
7 Elia Levita and the Romanzo Cavalleresco
163
8 Books of Morality and Conduct
207
9 Prayer in the Vernacular
260
10 Yiddish Narrative
296
11 Terrestrial Suffering in a TopsyTurvy World
328
From the Old to the New
386
Glossary
388
Bibliography
391
Index
445
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Sobre l'autor (2005)

Jean Baumgarten is Directeur de Recherche (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre d' Etudes Juives, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. Jerold C. Frakes is Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Southern California.

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