Producing redemption in Amsterdam [electronic resource] : early modern Yiddish books in paratextual perspective / by Shlomo Berger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berger, Shlomo.

Series:

Studies in Jewish History and Culture 37.

Studies in Jewish history and culture, 1568-5004 ; v. 37

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yiddish imprints--Publishing--Netherlands--Amsterdam--History.

Yiddish imprints.

Paratext--Netherlands--Amsterdam--History.

Paratext.

Publishers and publishing--Social aspects--Netherlands--Amsterdam--History.

Publishers and publishing.

Jews--Netherlands--Amsterdam--Intellectual life.

Jews.

Amsterdam (Netherlands)--Imprints.

Amsterdam (Netherlands).

Bible. O.T--Yiddish--Versions.

Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (253 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Yiddish was the basic Ashkenazi vernacular in the early modern period. The vast majority of the population was not educated and Yiddish books were printed in order to assist them with keeping a solid Jewish life. Being a basically German language and never being a canonical language as Hebrew, Yiddish also functioned as a buffer language between the internal Ashkenazi Jewish culture and the culture of the environment. Studying the paratexts added to printed Yiddish books may teach us about roles of the printed Yiddish word in Ashkenazi society: contents and forms of books, their contextual framework within Ashkenazi culture, the world of Yiddish book producers on the one hand, and the envisaged readership on the other.

Contents:

Paratexts, paratextology and early modern Yiddish books

Initial encounters: title pages

Sanctioning what? On approbations

Getting acquainted: prefaces

In between and at the end.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-299-10493-2

90-04-24806-4

OCLC:

828140168

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004248069 DOI