The Emergence of Early Yiddish Literature: Cultural Translation in Ashkenaz

Author/Contributor(s):	Frakes, Jerold C
Publisher:	Indiana University Press
Date:	06/26/2017
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

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.