The Emergence of Early Yiddish Literature: Cultural Translation in Ashkenaz

by Frakes, Jerold C.
ISBN: 9780253025517
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Overview

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.

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Author: Frakes, Jerold C.
  • ISBN: 9780253025517
  • Condition: New
  • Dimensions: 9.00 x 0.81
  • Number Of Pages: 352
  • Publication Year: 2017
Language: English