The Emergence of Early Yiddish Literature: Cultural Translation in Ashkenaz

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.

Author: Jerold C. Frakes
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 06/26/2017
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9780253025517

Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2018

About the Author

Jerold C. Frakes is SUNY Distinguished Professor of English at the University at Buffalo.