28.3440, Books: A Guide to Old Literary Yiddish: Frakes

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Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 18:49:10
From: Celine Aenlle-Rocha [Celine.Aenlle-Rocha at oup.com]
Subject: A Guide to Old Literary Yiddish: Frakes

Title: A Guide to Old Literary Yiddish 
Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/a-guide-to-old-literary-yiddish-9780198785026 

Author: Jerold C. Frakes

Hardback: ISBN:  9780198785026 Pages: 464 Price: U.S. $ 145

Abstract:

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, which are presented in their authentic form as found in manuscripts
and early printed books. The lessons seek to accommodate readers ranging from
absolute beginners to those who might already know Hebrew, medieval German, or
modern Yiddish. The focal texts are the Old Yiddish midrashic heroic
lay,'Joseph the Righteous', from the earliest extant manuscript collection of
Yiddish literature (1382), the Middle Yiddish romance adventure tale, 'Briyo
and Zimro', from a later collection (1585), and a full canto of the Middle
Yiddish epic, Pariz and Viene (1594), each with full glosses and a
step-by-step introduction to the morphology, syntax, and phonology. Each
lesson also includes a brief supplemental text that cumulatively demonstrates
the broad cultural range of the corpus. In addition, several appendices of
supplementary material round out the volume, including a collection of
additional readings, a table of the manuscript hands and printing fonts
employed in the volume, and a full end-glossary of all Yiddish words found in
the texts.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Lexicography
                     Ling & Literature

Subject Language(s): Yiddish, Eastern (ydd)
                     Yiddish, Western (yih)

Written In: English  (eng)

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