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This book provides a survey of the broad and deep literary tradition in Yiddish. The book is a study of an entire culture via its literature, and thus it sees literature in a broad sense. It begins with four chapters addressing pertinent issues of the larger cultural context of the literature and moves on to a consideration of the primary genres in which the culture is expressed: epic, romance, prose narrative, drama, biblical translation and commentary, ethical and moral treatises, prayers, and the broad range of literature of daily use — medical, legal, and historical.
Keywords: literary tradition, Yiddish, literature, cultural context, epic romance, prose narrative, drama, biblical translation, commentary, prayers
Print publication date: 2005 | Print ISBN-13: 9780199276332 |
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: October 2011 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199276332.001.0001 |
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