In the Demon''s Bedroom - Yiddish Literature and the Early Modern

Klappentext This important study is the first to offer a sustained look at a variety of early modern Yiddish masterworks--and their writers and readers--paying particular attention to their treatment of supernatural themes and beings. Zusammenfassung A study that looks at a variety of early modern Yiddish masterworks - and their writers and readers - focusing on their treatment of supernatural themes and beings.

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• Authors: Jeremy Dauber, Dauber Jeremy
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.01.2011
• EAN: 9780300141757
• ISBN: 978-0-300-14175-7
• No. of pages: 416
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, Jewish Studies, Literary studies: general, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Yiddish