The Cultural Study of Yiddish in Early Modern Europe
Description
A unique analysis of the intensive interest in Jewish culture of early modern Christian Humanists as a part of their comprehensive program of study of Greek, Latin, and Hebrew. The book focuses on how that interest was particularly manifested in a score of treatises on Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Yiddish language and literature.
Keywords
PhilosophyHistory & SurveysLiterary CriticismModernScienceHistoryReligionEurope
2008Book
Author(s)Jerold C. Frakes
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan US
ISBN9781403975478
LanguageEnglish
