The Jewish Pope - Myth, Diaspora and Yiddish Literature

In this examination of the myth of the Jewish Pope in four Yiddish literary texts dating from between 1602 and 1943, Sherman explores to what extent Yiddish language and literature derive from the dominant values of mainstream European culture.

List of contents

1: Why?; 2: The Master-Narrative and its Ambiguities; 3: The Mayse-bukh and the Debut of the Myth; 4: Ayzik-Meir Dik, Reformer through Fiction; 5: Y. Y. Trunk and the Myth after the Holocaust; 6: Radical Subversion with Isaac Bashevis Singer; 7: The Case of Israel Zangwill; 8: A Kind of Closure

About the author

Joseph Sherman

Product details

• Authors: Joseph Sherman, Sherman Joseph
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2002
• EAN: 9781900755771
• ISBN: 978-1-900755-77-1
• No. of pages: 212
• Weight: 294 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Cultural Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, Myth, c 1500 onwards to present day, Jewish Studies, Literary studies: general, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Yiddish