Book Summary
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.
Book Details
Book Name | The Cultural Study Of Yiddish In Early Modern Europe |
Author | Jerold C. Frakes |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan (Jun 2007) |
ISBN | 9781403975478 |
Pages | 255 |
Language | English |
Price | 3217 |