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Early Yiddish Texts 1100-1750: With Introduction and Commentary Book

A comprehensive anthology of Yiddish literature. This volume includes the genres that define the corpus from heroic epic and devotional literature to oaths legends fables and riddles. It also contains 130 texts in the Hebrew alphabet; and introductory headnotes that give bibliographical and codicological information.Read More

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    This volume is the first comprehensive anthology of early Yiddish literature (from its beginnings in the twelfth century to the dawn of modern Yiddish in the mid-eighteenth century) for more than one hundred years. One hundred and thirty texts in the original Hebrew alphabet, edited anew from the earliest extant sources, are provided with introductory headnotes that include detailed information concerning sources, author (if known), the research literature, and the place of the text in the literary tradition.

  • 019926614X
  • 9780199266142
  • Jerold C. Frakes
  • 9 December 2004
  • OUP Oxford
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 968
  • Bilingual
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