Author: Lajb FuksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : de
Pages : 199
Book Description
The Oldest Known Literary Documents of Yiddish Literature
Author: Lajb FuksIntroduction to Old Yiddish Literature
Author: Jean BaumgartenPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191557072
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Jean Baumgarten's Introduction to Old Yiddish Literature, thoroughly revised from the first edition and translated into English, provides students and scholars of medieval, Renaissance, and early modern European cultures with an exemplary survey of the broad and deep literary tradition in Yiddish. Baumgarten conceives of his work as the study of an entire culture via its literature, and thus he conceives of literature in a broad sense: he begins with four chapters addressing pertinent issues of the larger cultural context of the literature and moves on to a consideration of the primary genres in which the culture is expressed (epic, romance, prose narrative, drama, biblical translation and commentary, ethical and moral treatises, prayers, and the broad range of literature of daily use - medical, legal, and historical). In the field of early Yiddish studies the book will be the standard of intellectual breadth and scholarly excellence for decades to come. In this second edition, the hundreds of text citations and bibliographical references that are the scholarly basis of the study have been verified, and the citations translated anew directly from the original source.
A Guide to Old Literary Yiddish
Author: Jerold C. FrakesPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191087947
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
This book is a comprehensive introductory manual that guides beginners to a functional reading knowledge of late medieval and early modern Yiddish (c.1100-1750). It is the first such manual to exist for that language, whose early literary tradition comprises a range of genres as broad as other contemporary European literary traditions. The guide is organized as a series of progressively more complex lessons, focused on key texts of the literary corpus, which are presented in their authentic form as found in manuscripts and early printed books. The lessons seek to accommodate readers ranging from absolute beginners to those who might already know Hebrew, medieval German, or modern Yiddish. The focal texts are the Old Yiddish midrashic heroic lay,'Joseph the Righteous', from the earliest extant manuscript collection of Yiddish literature (1382), the Middle Yiddish romance adventure tale, 'Briyo and Zimro', from a later collection (1585), and a full canto of the Middle Yiddish epic, Pariz and Viene (1594), each with full glosses and a step-by-step introduction to the morphology, syntax, and phonology. Each lesson also includes a brief supplemental text that cumulatively demonstrates the broad cultural range of the corpus. In addition, several appendices of supplementary material round out the volume, including a collection of additional readings, a table of the manuscript hands and printing fonts employed in the volume, and a full end-glossary of all Yiddish words found in the texts.
The Oldest Known Literary Documents of Yiddish Literature
Author: Lajb FuksPublisher: Brill Archive
ISBN:
Category : Manuscripts, Yiddish
Languages : de
Pages : 190
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The Oldest Known Literary Documents of Yiddish Literature, C. 1382
Author: Cambridge University LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manuscripts, Yiddish
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
“The” oldest known literary documents of Yiddish literature (C. 1382)
Author: Lajb FuksThe Emergence of Early Yiddish Literature
Author: Jerold C. FrakesPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253025680
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. "Whither Am I to Go?": Old Yiddish Love Song in a European Context -- 3. (Non- )Intersecting Parallel Lives: Pasquino in Rome and on the Rialto -- 4. Purim Play as Political Action in Diasporic Europe and/as Ancient Persia -- 5. Vashti and Political Revolution: Gender Politics in a Topsy-Turvy World -- 6. The Political Liminality of Mordecai in Early Ashkenaz -- 7. Feudal Bridal Quest Turned on Its Jewish Head -- 8. The Other of Another Other: Yiddish Epic's Discarded Muslim Enemy -- 9. Conclusion -- Appendix: Elia Levita's Short Poems (English translation) -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y
Early Yiddish Epic
Author: Jerold C. FrakesPublisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 0815652682
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 521
Book Description
Unlike most other ancient European, Near Eastern, and Mediterranean civilizations, Jewish culture surprisingly developed no early epic tradition: while the Bible comprises a broad range of literary genres, epic is not among them. Not until the late medieval period, Beginning in the fourteenth century, did an extensive and thriving epic tradition emerge in Yiddish. Among the few dozen extant early epics, there are several masterpieces, of which ten are translated into English in this volume. Divided between the religious and the secular, the book includes eight epics presented in their entirety, an illustrative excerpt from another epic, and a brief heroic prose tale.These texts have been chosen as the best and the most interesting representatives of the genre in terms of cultural history and literary quality: the pious “epicizing” of biblical narrative, the swashbuckling medieval courtly epic, Arthurian romance, heroic vignettes, intellectual high art, and popular camp.
The Balkan Substratum of Yiddish
Author: Paul WexlerPublisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN: 9783447033367
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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