Emergence of Early Yiddish Literature

Cultural Translation in Ashkenaz

von Jerold C Frakes

302 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Indiana University Press (IPS)
• ISBN: 9780253025517
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.06.2017
• Größe: 235 x 157 mm
• Verlag: Indiana University Press