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Early Yiddish Texts, 1100-1750. Edited by Jerold C. Frakes. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2004. lxxvii + 889 pp.
Un beau livre d'histoires: Eyn shon mayse bukh; Fac-simile de l'editio princeps
de Bale (1602). Edited, introduced, and translated by Astrid Starck-Adler.
Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 2004. Two volumes: cxxxiii + 875 pp.
For the better part of a thousand years, the majority of European Jews dreamed, thought, worked, and loved in Yiddish; and though the multilingualism that characterized European Jewish life generated a correspondingly complex literary system, it seems fair to suggest that when fables, epics, wonder tales, and other stories reached the vast majority of Jewish eyes and ears, they did so in the culture's working vernacular, not the high-status Hebrew that was the lingua franca of all elite, sacred productions.
The critical study of Yiddish life and literature in general, and particularly in the premodern period (roughly before 1750), was tragically interrupted in the twentieth century by the Holocaust and by Stalinist repression; among the vast roll of victims to Nazism and Communism were many of the brightest lights of Yiddish scholarship....
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