Worlds of Old Yiddish Literature

Simon Neuberg; Diana Matut

Worlds of Old Yiddish Literature

Edited by Simon Neuberg and Diana Matut

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Studies In Yiddish 13

Legenda

October 2023 • 370pp

ISBN: 978-1-781886-96-0 (hardback) • RRP £85, $115, €99

ISBN: 978-1-781885-97-0 (paperback, forthcoming)

ISBN: 978-1-781885-98-7 (JSTOR ebook)

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Man mecht schir ain buch derfun schreibe̍n... (One might want to write a whole book about it...)

This volume opens the world of Old Yiddish to scholars and students of Yiddish and Jewish Studies alike. It is a further step to broaden awareness that Yiddish, far from starting with the nineteenth century, can claim a history of over a thousand years. Presenting topics such as the oldest traces of Yiddish, bibliographical issues, language interaction, interpretation, contextualization and research history, this volume will contribute greatly to understanding of Western Yiddish literature. Uniting renowned and emerging scholars from various disciplines such as philology, history, literary criticism, comparative literature, bibliographical studies, and musicology, Worlds of Old Yiddish Literature makes Old Yiddish Studies the focus of interdisciplinary dialogue within and between its chapters.

The editors are Simon Neuberg of Trier University and Diana Matut of the University Halle-Wittenberg.

Contents:

1	‘His Eyes Are Like Stars, Like Gold Is His Hair’: Joseph the Righteous in an Old Yiddish poem* Chava Turniansky	Cite
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2	A Newly Discovered Literary Text in Hebrew Letters Dating From Before 1349* Erika Timm	Cite
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3	Editorial Practice in Shmuel-bukh: The Biblical Intertext between Augsburg and Krakow Rachel Wamsley	Cite
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4	The Küʾ-buch: In Search of Origins Simon Neuberg	Cite
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5	‘To a King, to a Pig’: A Yiddish Poem on the Ages of Man* Claudia Rosenzweig	Cite
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6	Proverbs in Three Old Yiddish Epics Oren Roman	Cite
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7	The Carnivalesque in Early Modern Ashkenaz: Yuspa Shammes’s Minhagim and the Oxford Old Yiddish Manuscript Songbook* Ruth von Bernuth	Cite
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8	‘Ainer sol sich al-mol bedenken wer er sei’: Social Order, Status, and Class Stratification in the Kuh-bukh Jennifer Juillard-Maniece	Cite
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9	From Counter-Rabbinical Folktale to Rabbinic Narrative: Rabbi Hanina and the Frog* Wiebke Rasumny	Cite
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10	‘With kind words lean towards her...’: Singing for the Bride and Groom in Early Modern Ashkenaz Diana Matut	Cite
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11	‘Little Red Jews’: A Yiddish Variant of the Ten Lost Tribes Rebekka Voß	Cite
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12	Levirate Marriage in the Tsene-rene: A Sephardic View in an Ashkenazic Oeuvre Ingedore Rüdlin	Cite
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13	Katzenellenbogen Family Papers at the Bodleian Library, Oxford César Merchán-Hamann	Cite
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14	The Shpilman Theory and the Invention of the Jewish Bard Zehavit Stern	Cite
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Neuberg, Simon, and Diana Matut (eds), Worlds of Old Yiddish Literature, Studies In Yiddish, 13 (Cambridge: Legenda, 2023)

First footnote reference: ³⁵ Worlds of Old Yiddish Literature, ed. by Simon Neuberg and Diana Matut, Studies In Yiddish, 13 (Cambridge: Legenda, 2023), p. 21.

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Neuberg, Simon, and Diana Matut (eds). 2023. Worlds of Old Yiddish Literature, Studies In Yiddish, 13 (Cambridge: Legenda)

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