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  • Early Yiddish Texts 1100-1750: With Introduction and Commentary

    Early Yiddish Texts 1100-1750 by Frakes, Jerold C.;

    With Introduction and Commentary

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    • Publisher OUP Oxford
    • Date of Publication 27 November 2008

    • ISBN 9780199287932
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages970 pages
    • Size 233x156x53 mm
    • Weight 1416 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations colour frontispiece
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    Short description:

    This is the first comprehensive anthology of early Yiddish literature for more than a century. It includes 130 texts covering the broad range of genres that define the corpus: from heroic epic and devotional literature to oaths, legends, fables, and riddles.

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    Long description:

    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.

    It is an anthology on a massive scale in a neglected field of study. It is, in fact, a sort of history of pre-modern Yiddish presented through the medium of texts or excerpts of texts in their original language.

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    Table of Contents:

    Chronological Listing of Texts
    Index of Texts by Genre
    Sources Cited: Manuscripts and Early Printed Editions
    Symbols and Abbreviations
    Introduction
    Acknowledgements
    Yiddish Texts with Introductions and Notes

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