Early Yiddish Texts 1100-1750
ISBN-10: 0199287937
ISBN-13: 9780199287932
$69.00
Book Specs
Binding
Trade Paper
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Published on
Sep 28, 2009
Edition
1st Edition
Dimensions
6.25x2.00x9.25 Inches
Weight
3.10 Pounds
About the Book
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.