Picturing Yiddish: Gender, Identity, and Memory in the Illustrated Yiddish Books of Renaissance Italy

by Diane Wolfthal

This is the first comprehensive study of the images in five profusely illustrated Yiddish books that were produced in sixteenth-century Italy: a manuscript of Jewish customs illustrated by its scribe, and two books of customs, a chivalric romance, and a book of fables, all printed at Christian presses in Venice and Verona. The long-neglected manuscript includes more than one hundred drawings, here reproduced for the first time, which are strikingly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004139052
• ISBN13: 9789004139053
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 406 Pages
• Weight: 2.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.6"