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The Cultural Study of Yiddish in Early Modern Europe

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  1. Jerold C. Frakes
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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Christian Humanism and the Jews

    1. Christian Humanism and the Jews

      • Jerold C. Frakes
      Pages 1-5

  3. Humanism and Yiddish

    1. Humanism and Yiddish

      • Jerold C. Frakes
      Pages 7-9

  4. Humanist Scholarship and the Study of Yiddish

    1. Humanist Scholarship and the Study of Yiddish

      • Jerold C. Frakes
      Pages 11-81

  5. Texts / Translations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83
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    2. Elementale Introductorium in hebreas litteras teutonice et hebraice legendas / Elementary Introduction to Reading German and Hebrew in Hebrew Letters (1514)

      • Johannes Böschenstein
      Pages 84-87

    3. “In∫titutio breuis, quomodo uernacula quæque lingua Hebraicis characteribus ∫cribi po∫∫ it” / ‘A Brief Introduction to How the Vernacular Language can be Written in Hebrew Characters,’ from Institutiones grammaticæ in hebræam linguam / Grammatical Principles of the Hebrew Language (1524)

      • Sebastian Münster
      Pages 88-91

    4. Anonymous, ‘Here Follows How One Can Learn to Read Yiddish,’ from The Book of Measures (1542)

      • Jerold C. Frakes
      Pages 92-93

    5. “De variis literarvm figuris sev notvlis” / ‘On Various Forms and Pointings of Letters,’ from Compendiaria isagoge in linguam hebræam / A Brief Introduction to the Hebrew Language (1543)

      • Paulus Fagius
      Pages 94-99

    6. “Svccincta ratio legendi hebræo-germanica” / ‘A Concise Method for Reading Hebrew-German,’ from Prima qvatvor capita Geneseos / The First Four Chapters of Genesis (1543)

      • Paulus Fagius
      Pages 100-101

    7. Elemental / oder le∫ebüchlen / Primer, or Reader (Hundsfeld 1543)

      • Paul Helicz
      Pages 102-123

    8. ‘How to Read and Write Yiddish,’ from His Translation of / Yosifon (1546)

      • Michael Adam
      Pages 124-125

    9. “Ein gewi∫∫er Bericht von der Teut∫ch Hebrei∫chen Schrifft / deren ∫ich die Juden gebrauchen” / ‘A Reliable/Certain Report on the German-Hebrew Script,’ from Mysterium (1592)

      • Elias Schadäus
      Pages 126-137

    10. “Isagoge brevissima exhibens rationem legendi et scribendi Hebræogermanicum” / ‘Very Brief Introduction, Expounding the Principles of Reading and Writing Hebrew-German,’ from Compendium Hebrææ Lingvæ / Precis of the Hebrew Language (1594)

      • Thomas Blebelius
      Pages 138-149

    11. “De Scriptura Judæorum” / ‘On the Script of the Jews,’ from Grammaticæ Hebrææ compendiosa institutio / Brief Principles of Hebrew Grammar (1607)

      • Johannes Meelführer
      Pages 150-155

    12. “Lectionis Hebræo-Germanicæ U∫us et exercitatio” / ‘The Practice and Exercise of Reading Hebrew-German,’ from Thesaurus Grammaticus Linguæ Sanctæ Hebrææ / Grammar of the Holy Hebrew Tongue (1609)

      • Johann Buxtorf
      Pages 156-183

    13. “De scriptura ebraico-germanica” / ‘On Hebrew-German Script,’ from Rabbinismus. hoc est præcepta Targumico-talmudico-rabbinica …, in Ebraismus, Chaldaismus, Syriasmus, Arabismus … / Rabbinism, That Is, Targumic-Talmudic-Rabbinical Principles (1666)

      • Andreas Sennert
      Pages 184-187

    14. “De lectione ebræo-germanica” / ‘On Reading Hebrew-German,’ from Critica Sacra / Biblical Textual Criticism (1680)

      • August Pfeiffer
      Pages 188-199

    15. “De Lectione Hebræo-Germanica” / ‘On Reading Hebrew-German,’ from Schola Hebraica / Hebrew School (1688)

      • Caspar Kümmet
      Pages 200-209

    16. “Anwei∫ung / Wie man die Rabbini∫chen Teut∫chen Bücher und Brieffe … le∫en und ver∫tehen ∫oll” / ‘Instruction in How to Read and Understand … Rabbinical Books and Letters,’ from Neues ABC Buch / New ABC Book (1689)

      • Henricus Heinrich Ammersbach
      Pages 210-219
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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.

About the author

JEROLD C. FRAKES is Professor of German and Comparative Literature and part of the Associate Faculty in Classics at the University of Southern California, USA. He has authored three books: The Fate of Fortune in the Early Middle Ages: The Boethian Tradition, The Politics of Interpretation: Alterity and Ideology in Old Yiddish Studies, and most recently, Brides and Doom: Gender, Property and Power in Medieval German Women's Epic. He is the editor of the anthology Early Yiddish Texts, 1100-1750.

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