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Emergence of Early Yiddish Literature - Cultural Translation in Ashkenaz

English · Hardback

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Informationen zum Autor Jerold C. Frakes Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Abbreviations Acknowledgements 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. Purimplay as Political Action in Diasporic Europe and/as Ancient Persia 5. Queen 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) Notes Bibliography Index

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Authors Jerold C Frakes, Jerold C. Frakes, Frakes Jerold C
Publisher Indiana University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 31.05.2017
 
EAN 9780253025517
ISBN 978-0-253-02551-7
No. of pages 352
Series German Jewish Cultures
German Jewish Cultures
Subjects Fiction > Poetry, drama
Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures

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