Publication

2017 - Indiana University Press

Language

English

Word Count

75,500 words, Guess

Page Count

302 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139780253025517
  • ISBN-100253025516
  • OCLC Control Number951763398
  • Better World Books9780253025517
  • Open LibraryOL28613274M

Classifications

  • LCCPJ5120.5
  • LCCPJ5120.5 .F57 2017

Description

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.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Emergence of Early Yiddish Literature: Cultural Translation in AshkenazIndiana University Press2017-01-01

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