The Cultural Study of Yiddish in Early Modern Europe

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.

• | Author: J. Frakes
• | Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• | Publication Date: Mar 11, 2008
• | Number of Pages: 255 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 1403975477
• | ISBN-13: 9781403975478