Articles

Essays and peer-reviewed scholarship in Yiddish Studies, an interdisciplinary field that engages all aspects of Yiddish cultural production, especially in its relationship to other cultures and languages.

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The Writing Werewolf: Rabbinic Identity and Linguistic Understanding in the Old Yiddish Mayse-bukh (Book of Stories, 1602)

Lan­guage pol­i­tics are embod­ied by a rab­bi-turned-were­wolf in a mayse from one of the most influ­en­tial and pop­u­lar ear­ly mod­ern Yid­dish books.

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The Catalog of Thirty-One Kings: Thoughts in the Twenty-First Century on Old Yiddish Epic

Focus­ing on a retelling of Joshua 12:7 – 24, this study demon­strates the role of the epic in the rep­re­sen­ta­tion of bib­li­cal themes in Old Yid­dish literature.

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Old Yiddish Literature: Historical and Cultural Perspectives: A Special Issue of In geveb

The intro­duc­tion pre­views how con­tri­bu­tions expand our knowl­edge of Old Yid­dish lit­er­a­ture, while also shed­ding light on the study of pop­u­lar cul­ture, inter­cul­tur­al exchange, and gender.

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A German Tune, A Hebrew Script: A Yiddish Translation of Lutheran Liturgy

A Yid­dish trans­la­tion of a Protes­tant morn­ing hymn reveals inter­re­li­gious and inter­cul­tur­al exchange of reli­gious poet­ry and music.

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Women Wrote: Glikl in Context

Plac­ing Glik­l’s writ­ing along­side writ­ings by oth­er con­tem­po­rary women in cen­tral Europe reveals what char­ac­ter­ized their shared lit­er­ary and cul­tur­al context.

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The Dangers of Being without a Frame (Con licenza de Superiori)

By pre­sent­ing rewrit­ten Hebrew fables with­out an autho­r­i­al frame-sto­ry, the Kü-bukh presents morals that are the very oppo­site of what could be expected.

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