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Annegret Oehme

Annegret Oehme is an Associate Professor in the Department of German Studies at the University of Washington. Her research interests include medieval and early modern German and Yiddish romance and epic and pre-modern cultural transfers within a German-Jewish context. Her publications have appeared in various collections and journals, including Arthuriana, Ashkenaz, Daphnis, The German Quarterly, PaRDeS and Speculum. Her recent publications include the monograph The Knight without Boundaries: Yiddish and German Arthurian Wigalois Adaptations (Brill, 2022), a special issue of German Quarterly 96, no. 2 (2023): “Premodern German Studies,” guest co-edited with CJ Jones; and Medieval and Early Modern Jewish Romance (Arc Humanities Press, 2023), co-edited with Caroline Gruenbaum.

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

Annegret Oehme

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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