Yiddish knights
By: edited by Marion Aptroot
Contributors: Menasseh ben Israel Instituut voor joodse sociaal-wetenschappelijke en cultuurhistorische studies
Series: Amsterdam Yiddish Symposium -- 14; Amsterdam Yiddish symposium -- 14.
Publisher: Menasseh ben Israel Institute
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng; yid
Number of pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9789082967432
Subjects: Knights and knighthood in literature; Congresses; Yiddish literature; History and criticism; Yiddish Manuscripts; Fiction; Stepparents; Jews; Identity; Antisemitism; Nationalism; Social life and customs; Russian fiction
Description: "Yiddish literature is a Jewish literature. It is also a European literature and its literary materials and forms reflect contacts with Jewish and non-Jewish cultures. It is therefore not surprising that we find Yiddish texts about knights from the Middle Ages and early modern period. In the specialist lectures at this symposium, which will all be presented in English, we encounter epic poems and romances resulting from contact with Hebrew (biblical, midrashic), German and Italian literatures" --
Notes: "This publication appears under the auspices of the Chair for Yiddish Language and Culture in the Netherlands at the University of Amsterdam" -- Colophon.

In English; with Yiddish texts with parallel translation in English.
Table of contents: title: Chivalric scenes in Yiddish retellings of the Books of the Former Prophets / Oren Roman; title: When may a knight choose not to act? Differing concepts of valor, love, and gender roles in a Middle High German romance and in its Yiddish adaptation / Astrid Lembke; title: The artifice of being a medieval knight in Elye Bokher's Bovo d'Antona / Miriam Edlich-Muth.