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The emergence of early Yiddish literature Book : cultural translation in Ashkenaz / Jerold C. Frakes.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: German Jewish culturesDescription: xi, 286 pages : 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780253025517 (hardback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 839.109 23
Other classification:
  • 839.109
Summary: While much early Yiddish literature belonged to pious genres, quasi-secular genres epic, drama, and lyric also developed. Jerold C. 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
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Books Books Junaid Zaidi Library, COMSATS University Islamabad 2nd Floor 839.109 FRA-E 62124 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 10001000062124
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While much early Yiddish literature belonged to pious genres, quasi-secular genres epic, drama, and lyric also developed. Jerold C. 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

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