A goy who speaks Yiddish
Subtitle: Christians and the Jewish language in early modern Germany
By: Aya Elyada
Series: Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture; Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780804781930
Subjects: Yiddish language; Judaism; Study and teaching; History and criticism; Relations; Christianity; Christian scholars; German Christian literature; Yiddish literature; Yiddish language in literature; Christianity and other religions; History
Description: This book explores the unique phenomenon of Christian engagement with Yiddish language and literature from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the late eighteenth century. By analyzing the motivations for Christian interest in Yiddish, and the differing ways in which Yiddish was discussed and treated in Christian texts, it addresses a wide array of issues, most notably Christian Hebraism, Protestant theology, early modern Yiddish culture, and the social and cultural history of language in early modern Europe.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Yiddish in the service of Christian theology. Introduction : Christian Hebraism and the study of Yiddish in early modern Europe; title: Yiddish in the Judenmission; title: "From the Jews' own books" : Yiddish literature, Christian readers; title: Blasphemy, curses, and insults : Yiddish and the Jews' "hidden transcript"; title: Ancilla theologiae : Yiddish as a Hilfsmittel for theological studies; title: Conclusion : the study of Yiddish and Christian-Jewish relations in early modern Germany; title: Yiddish in the Service of Jewish Deception. Introduction : Yiddish in the socioeconomic sphere; title: The merchants' tongue : Yiddish and Jewish commerce; title: The thieves' jargon : Yiddish and Jewish criminality; title: Conclusion : Yiddish as antilanguage; title: The Discourse on Yiddish in Early Modern Germany. Introduction : between Hebrew and German : the depictions of Yiddish in Christian writings; title: German of the Jews : linguistic affinity and the politics of differentiation; title: Yiddish and German in the Judenmission : the limits of linguistic adaptation; title: Christian Hebrew and Jewish Yiddish in early modern Germany; title: Conclusion : Yiddish-speaking orientals : language shift and the "Verbesserung der Juden".