INTRODUCTION TO OLD YIDDISH LITERATURE; ED. BY JEROLD C. FRAKES.
Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Published: 2005
Place of publication: OXFORD
Language: und; eng
Number of pages: 459
Description: This study opens up to a more general audience the cultural richness of Yiddish studies that stretches from its beginnings in the Middle Ages to the mid-18th century. The literature spans genres, from love lyric to kabbalistic treatises, and from travelogue to Renaissance adventure epic.