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The Eighteenth-century Language Text of Judischer Sprach-Meister: A West-Yiddish Dialogue Together with an English Translation and Introduction
Author(s): Jordan D. Finkin (Translator)
- Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
- Publication Date: 1 Oct. 2009
- Language: English, Yiddish
- Print length: 376 pages
- ISBN-10: 0773438297
- ISBN-13: 9780773438293
Book Description
This work presents the first modern edition and English translation of the 18th century anti-Semitic farce Judischer Sprach-Meister(“The Jewish Language Tutor”). The West Yiddish text describes a conversation between two Jews on various aspects of Jewish belief and practice. This volume includes a reproduction of the original text in a modern orthography and an English translation, together with an introduction, notes, and a glossary of the many Hebrew words in the text. For these reasons this edition of the Judischer Sprach-Meister will be a welcome addition for specialists in Jewish Studies and generalists alike.
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This work presents the first modern edition and English translation of the 18th century anti-Semitic farce Judischer Sprach-Meister(“The Jewish Language Tutor”). The West Yiddish text describes a conversation between two Jews on various aspects of Jewish belief and practice. This volume includes a reproduction of the original text in a modern orthography and an English translation, together with an introduction, notes, and a glossary of the many Hebrew words in the text. For these reasons this edition of the Judischer Sprach-Meister will be a welcome addition for specialists in Jewish Studies and generalists alike.
About the Author
Dr.Finkin is the Cowley Lecturer in Post-Biblical Hebrew at the University of Oxford. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a specialist in Jewish modernist literature in Hebrew and Yiddish and author of the book A Rhetorical Conversation: Jewish Discourse in Modern Yiddish Literature.
