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This study of Yiddish texts dating from 1100 to 1750 is the definitive work in the field. Frakes is at home in the classics, medieval studies, German studies, comparative religion, and Hebrew and Yiddish, and he brings to this historical study of many of the same texts the impeccable scholarship characteristic of his previous works.

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Table of Contents

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

The Emergence of Early Yiddish Literature

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      Publisher: Indiana University Press
      Publication Date: 26/06/2017
      ISBN13: 9780253025517, 978-0253025517
      ISBN10: 0253025516
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      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review

      This study of Yiddish texts dating from 1100 to 1750 is the definitive work in the field. Frakes is at home in the classics, medieval studies, German studies, comparative religion, and Hebrew and Yiddish, and he brings to this historical study of many of the same texts the impeccable scholarship characteristic of his previous works.

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      Table of Contents

      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

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