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Early Yiddish Texts, 1100-1750

Early Yiddish Texts, 1100-1750

Hardback (09 Dec 2004) | English,Yiddish

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Publisher's Synopsis

This volume is the first comprehensive anthology of early Yiddish literature (from its beginnings in the twelfth century to the dawn of modern Yiddish in the mid-eighteenth century) for more than one hundred years. It includes the broad range of genres that define the corpus: Arthurian romance, heroic epic, satire, lyric, drama, biblical/midrashic epic, devotional literature, biblical translations, glosses, medicine, magic, legal texts, oaths, letters, legends, autobiography, travelogue, fables, riddles, and adventure tales. One hundred and thirty texts in the original Hebrew alphabet, edited anew from the earliest extant sources, are provided with introductory headnotes that include detailed information concerning sources, author (if known), the research literature, and the place of the text in the literary tradition.

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Oxford University Press

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Book information

ISBN: 9780199266142
Publisher: OUP OXFORD
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 839.109
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English,Yiddish
Number of pages: 889
Weight: 1550g
Height: 241mm
Width: 168mm
Spine width: 59mm