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The Emergence of Early Yiddish Literature : Cultural Translation in Ashkenaz /
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 pl...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2017
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| Colección: | German Jewish cultures.
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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. Purim play as political action in diasporic Europe and/as ancient Persia
- 5. 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).