Bovo d'Antona by Elye Bokher
Subtitle: a Yiddish romance : a critical edition with commentary
By: by Claudia Rosenzweig
Series: Studies in Jewish history and culture -- volume 49
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789004306844; 9789004306851
Description: "Bovo d'Antona by Elye Bokher (Elyiahu ben Asher haLevi Ashkenazi, 1469-1549) is a chivalry poem written in Yiddish in Padoa, in the year 1507, and printed under the author's supervision in Isny (Germany) in the year 1541. The present book intends to present a critical edition of this poem, together with a commentary. An introduction will focus on various related questions, such as the place of the Bovo d'Antona in European literature and in Italian literature, Bovo d'Antona and the chivalric genre in Old Yiddish literature, the analysis of the manuscript versions in comparison with the printed edition, the relationship with the Italian source and the readership. An appendix will deal with later transformations of the Bovo-Bukh"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.