The Emergence of Early Yiddish Literature : Cultural Translation in Ashkenaz /

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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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Frakes, Jerold C. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017
Collection:German Jewish cultures.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Yiddish literature > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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).

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