
Producing Redemption in Amsterdam
Early Modern Yiddish Books in Paratextual Perspective
Shlomo Berger(Author)
Brill (Publisher)
Published on 23. January 2013
Book
Hardback
253 pages
978-90-04-24785-7 (ISBN)
Description
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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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Laminated cover
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
534 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-24785-7 (9789004247857)
DOI
10.1000/b10147
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Person
Shlomo Berger, Ph.D. (1987), University of Amsterdam, is professor of Yiddish Studies in the Dept. of Hebrew and Jewish Studies. He published monographs and many articles on early modern Yiddish, including Travels among Jews and Gentiles: Abraham Levie's Travelogue Amsterdam 1764 (Brill 2002).