Book Summary
This volume is the first comprehensive anthology of early Yiddish literature (from its beginnings in the twelfth century to the dawn of modern Yiddish in the mid-eighteenth century) for more than one hundred years. One hundred and thirty texts in the original Hebrew alphabet, edited anew from the earliest extant sources, are provided with introductory headnotes that include detailed information concerning sources, author (if known), the research literature, and the place of the text in the literary tradition.
Book Details
| Book Name | Early Yiddish Texts 1100-1750: With Introduction And Commentary |
| Author | Jerold C. Frakes |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, Usa (Sep 2009) |
| ISBN | 9780199287932 |
| Pages | 889 |
| Language | English |
| Price | 1713 |
