A Guide to Old Literary Yiddish

by Jerold C Frakes and Jerold C. Frakes

This book is a comprehensive introductory manual that guides beginners to a functional reading knowledge of late medieval and early modern Yiddish (c.1100-1750). It is the first such manual to exist for that language, whose early literary tradition comprises a range of genres as broad as other contemporary European literary traditions. The guide is organized as a series of progressively more complex lessons, focused on key texts of the literary corpus,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019878502X
• ISBN13: 9780198785026
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.9" x 9.8"