The Emergence of Early Yiddish Literature: Cultural Translation in Ashkenaz

By Jerold C Frakes and Jerold C. Frakes

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 place where Jewish life was defined by expulsions, massacres, and discriminatory legislation that profoundly altered European Judaism and shook the very foundations of traditional Jewish society.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253025516
• ISBN13: 9780253025517
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher