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The Emergence of Early Yiddish Literature

The Emergence of Early Yiddish Literature Cultural Translation in Ashkenaz - German Jewish Cultures

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Publisher's Synopsis

While much early Yiddish literature belonged to pious genres, quasi-secular genres-epic, drama, and lyric-also developed. Jerold Frakes contends that the historical context of the emergence of Yiddish literature is an essential factor in any understanding of its cultural relevance in a time and place where Jewish life was defined by expulsions, massacres, and discriminatory legislation that profoundly altered European Judaism and shook the very foundations of traditional Jewish society.

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ISBN: 9780253025517
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 839.109
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 352
Weight: 604g
Height: 160mm
Width: 235mm
Spine width: 26mm