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‘I Know This Book of Mine Will Cause Offence⋯’: A Yiddish Adaptation of Boccaccio’s Decameron (Amsterdam 1710)

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Zutot 2003

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  1. The prefaces to this and other publications by Joseph Maarsen were published in J. Shatzky, ‘Di hakdomes tsu Yoysef Marsns khiburim’, Yivo-bleter 13 (1938) 377–389.

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  1. Heinrich Heine Universität, Düsseldorf

    Marion Aptroot

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  1. Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Shlomo Berger  & Irene Zwiep  & 

  2. Salomon Ludwig Steinheim-Institut an, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany

    Michael Brocke

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Aptroot, M. (2004). ‘I Know This Book of Mine Will Cause Offence⋯’: A Yiddish Adaptation of Boccaccio’s Decameron (Amsterdam 1710). In: Berger, S., Brocke, M., Zwiep, I. (eds) Zutot 2003. Zutot: Perspectives on Jewish Culture, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-2628-5_17

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