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.
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.
Jerold C. Frakes is SUNY Distinguished Professor of English at the University at Buffalo.
Inhaltsangabe
Preface Abbreviations Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. "Whither am I to Go?": Old Yiddish Love Song in a European Context 3. (Non-)Intersecting Parallel Lives: Pasquino in Rome and on the Rialto 4. Purimplay as Political Action in Diasporic Europe and/as Ancient Persia 5. Queen Vashti and Political Revolution: Gender Politics in a Topsy-Turvy World 6. The Political Liminality of Mordecai in Early Ashkenaz 7. Feudal Bridal-Quest Turned on its Jewish Head 8. The Other of Another Other: Yiddish Epic's Discarded Muslim Enemy 9. Conclusion Appendix: Elia Levita's Short Poems (English translation) Notes Bibliography Index
Preface Abbreviations Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. "Whither am I to Go?": Old Yiddish Love Song in a European Context 3. (Non-)Intersecting Parallel Lives: Pasquino in Rome and on the Rialto 4. Purimplay as Political Action in Diasporic Europe and/as Ancient Persia 5. Queen Vashti and Political Revolution: Gender Politics in a Topsy-Turvy World 6. The Political Liminality of Mordecai in Early Ashkenaz 7. Feudal Bridal-Quest Turned on its Jewish Head 8. The Other of Another Other: Yiddish Epic's Discarded Muslim Enemy 9. Conclusion Appendix: Elia Levita's Short Poems (English translation) Notes Bibliography Index
Es gelten unsere Allgemeinen Geschäftsbedingungen: www.buecher.de/agb
Impressum
www.buecher.de ist ein Internetauftritt der buecher.de internetstores GmbH
Geschäftsführung: Monica Sawhney | Roland Kölbl | Günter Hilger
Sitz der Gesellschaft: Batheyer Straße 115 - 117, 58099 Hagen
Postanschrift: Bürgermeister-Wegele-Str. 12, 86167 Augsburg
Amtsgericht Hagen HRB 13257
Steuernummer: 321/5800/1497
USt-IdNr: DE450055826