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The Emergence of Early Yiddish Literature: Cultural Translation in Ashkenaz (German Jewish Cultures)
The Emergence of Early Yiddish Literature Cultural Translation in Ashkenaz - German Jewish Cultures
Author: Jerold C. Frakes
While much early Yiddish literature belonged to pious genres, quasi-secular genres?epic, drama, and lyric?also developed. Jerold C. 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 expulsion...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780253025517
ISBN-10: 0253025516
Publication Date: 4/12/2017
Pages: 352
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Publisher: Indiana University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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