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A Goy Who Speaks Yiddish - Christians and the Jewish Language in Early Modern Germany (Hardcover, New)
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A Goy Who Speaks Yiddish - Christians and the Jewish Language in Early Modern Germany (Hardcover, New)
Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
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This book explores the unique phenomenon of Christian engagement
with Yiddish language and literature from the beginning of the
sixteenth century to the late eighteenth century. By exploring the
motivations for Christian interest in Yiddish, and the differing
ways in which Yiddish was discussed and treated in Christian texts,
A Goy Who Speaks Yiddish addresses a wide array of issues, most
notably Christian Hebraism, Protestant theology, early modern
Yiddish culture, and the social and cultural history of language in
early modern Europe. Elyada's analysis of a wide range of
philological and theological works, as well as textbooks,
dictionaries, ethnographical writings, and translations,
demonstrates that Christian Yiddishism had implications beyond its
purely linguistic and philological dimensions. Indeed, Christian
texts on Yiddish reveal not only the ways in which Christians
perceived and defined Jews and Judaism, but also, in a contrasting
vein, how they viewed their own language, religion, and culture.
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