The Cultural Study of Yiddish in Early Modern

This volume comprises a unique analysis of the intensive interest in Jewish culture of early modern Christian Humanists as a part of their comprehensive program of study of Greek, Latin, and Hebrew. The book focuses on how that interest was particularly manifested in a score of treatises on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Yiddish language and literature.

Jerold C. Frakes is Professor of German and Comparative Literature and part of the Associate Faculty in Classics at the University of Southern California. He has authored three books: The Fate of Fortune in the Early Middle Ages: The Boethian Tradition, The Politics of Interpretation: Alterity and Ideology in Old Yiddish Studies, and most recently, Brides and Doom: Gender, Property and Power in Medieval German Women's Epic. He is the editor of the anthology Early Yiddish Texts, 1100-1750.

Christian humanism and the Jews	p. 1
Humanism and Yiddish	p. 7
Humanist scholarship and the study of Yiddish	p. 11
Texts/translations	p. 83
Elementary introduction to reading German and Hebrew in Hebrew letters	p. 84
A brief introduction to how the vernacular language can be written in Hebrew characters	p. 88
Here follows how one can learn to read Yiddish	p. 92
On various forms and pointings of letters	p. 94
A concise method for reading Hebrew-German	p. 100
Primer, or reader	p. 102
How to read and write Yiddish	p. 124
A reliable/certain report on the German-Hebrew script	p. 126
Very brief introduction, expounding the principles of reading and writing Hebrew-German	p. 138
On the script of the Jews	p. 150
The practice and exercise of reading Hebrew-German	p. 156
On Hebrew-German script	p. 184
On reading Hebrew-German	p. 188
On reading Hebrew-German	p. 200
Instruction in how to read and understand ... rabbinical books and letters	p. 210
Report on how to read Jewish-German	p. 220
Appendix on the Germanic vernacular of the Jews	p. 234
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The Cultural Study of Yiddish in Early Modern Europe

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