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 ...
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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.
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Add this copy of Producing Redemption in Amsterdam: Early Modern Yiddish to cart. $120.00, like new condition, Sold by art longwood books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester, MA, UNITED STATES, published 2013 by Brill.
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Fine. No Jacket, as Issued. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Hard cover., no flaws or wear. clean. no markings. no bumps. tight binding. appears unused.; english text with some yiddish and hebrew.; xviii-233pp., 5 b/w illustrations. publication and readership of yiddish books in early modern europe, particularly books emanating from amsterdam.
