How the Wise Men Got to Chelm : The Life and Times of a Yiddish Folk Tradition /

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"How the Wise Men Got to Chelm is the first in-depth study of Chelm literature and its relationship to its literary precursors. By placing literary Chelm and its 'foolish' antecedents in a broader historical context, it shows how they have functioned for over three hundred years as mo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Bernuth, Ruth von (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Deutsch, ...
Lalebuch
Jewish wit and humor in literature.
Jewish folk literature > History and criticism.
Folk literature, Yiddish > Poland > Chełm (Lublin) > History and criticism.
Folk literature, Yiddish > History and criticism.
Volkserzählung
Schlemihl
Juden
Jiddisch
Folk literature, Yiddish.
Jewish folk literature.
Osteuropa
Cholm
Poland > Chełm (Lublin)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"How the Wise Men Got to Chelm is the first in-depth study of Chelm literature and its relationship to its literary precursors. By placing literary Chelm and its 'foolish' antecedents in a broader historical context, it shows how they have functioned for over three hundred years as models of society, somewhere between utopia and dystopia. These imaginary foolish towns have enabled writers both to entertain and highlight a variety of societal problems, a function that literary Chelm continues to fulfill in Jewish literature to this day"--Publisher description.
Descripción Física:1 online resource: illustrations ;
ISBN:9781479827497

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