Early Yiddish Texts 1100-1750: With Introduction and Commentary by Jerold C. Frakes Holocaust History and the invention of the

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Each chapter opens with an invocation by liturgist and healer Dori Midnight and illuminated by artist Sol Weiss

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Early Yiddish Texts 1100-1750: With Introduction and Commentary by Jerold C. Frakes Holocaust History and the invention of theThis volume is the first comprehensive anthology of early Yiddish literature (from its beginnings in the twelfth century to the dawn of modern Yiddish in the mid eighteenth century) for more than one hundred years. It includes the broad range of genres that define the corpus: Arthurian romance, heroic epic, satire, lyric, drama, biblical midrashic epic, devotional literature, biblical translations, glosses, medicine, magic, legal texts, oaths,