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Early Yiddish Epic / translated by Jerold C. Frakes.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Judaic traditions in literature, music, and art.
- Judaic traditions in literature, music, and art
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Yiddish literature.
- Epic literature, Yiddish--Translations into English.
- Epic literature, Yiddish.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (521 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Unlike most other ancient European, Near Eastern, and Mediterranean civilizations, Jewish culture surprisingly developed no early epic tradition: while the Bible comprises a broad range of literary genres, epic is not among them. Not until the late medieval period, Beginning in the fourteenth century, did an extensive and thriving epic tradition emerge in Yiddish. Among the few dozen extant early epics, there are several masterpieces, of which ten are translated into English in this volume. Divided between the religious and the secular, the book includes eight epics presented in their entirety, an illustrative excerpt from another epic, and a brief heroic prose tale.These texts have been chosen as the best and the most interesting representatives of the genre in terms of cultural history and literary quality: the pious "epicizing" of biblical narrative, the swashbuckling medieval courtly epic, Arthurian romance, heroic vignettes, intellectual high art, and popular camp.
- Contents:
- Abraham our father (Avrom ovinu)
- Joseph the righteous (Yousef ha-tsadik)
- Book of Samuel (Seyfer Shmuel)
- The binding of Isaac (Akeydas Yitskhok)
- Duke Horant (Dukus Horant)
- Vidvilt
- Bovo of Antona (Bovo d'Antona)
- Pariz and Viene (Pariz un Viene)
- Appendix A. The Book of Kings, (Seyfer Melokhim: excerpts)
- Appendix B. Briyo and Zimro (Briyo ve-Zimro).
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 453-464).
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780815652687
- 0815652682
- OCLC:
- 883390836
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