Introduction to Old Yiddish literature
"Since the Second World War the discovery of numerous significant additions to the corpus of early Yiddish literature has radically altered the content and cultural scope of the field. These discoveries have stimulated a renaissance in scholarship, which has none the less continued to be hindered by the lack of an up-to-date, comprehensive history of early Yiddish literature. With the publication, in French, of Jean Baumgarten's exceptionally wide-ranging and thorough study in 1993, this gap in scholarship was, at a stroke, filled. That study has now been revised, updated, and translated into English by Jerold C. Frakes."--Jacket
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xviii, 459 pages ; 24 cm
9780199276332, 0199276331
57493582
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
Translated from the French