ISBN:
0804781931
,
9780804781930
Language:
English
Pages:
XVII, 260 S.
,
Ill.
,
24 cm
Year of publication:
2012
Series Statement:
Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
DDC:
439/.10882743
Keywords:
Yiddish language Study and teaching
;
History
;
Yiddish literature Study and teaching
;
History
;
Christian literature, German History and criticism
;
Yiddish language in literature
;
Christianity and other religions Judaism
;
Judaism Relations
;
Christianity
;
Christian scholars History
;
Deutschland
;
Jiddisch
;
Christ
;
Geschichte 1500-1800
Description / Table of Contents:
Yiddish in the service of Christian theology. Introduction : Christian Hebraism and the study of Yiddish in early modern EuropeYiddish in the Judenmission -- "From the Jews' own books" : Yiddish literature, Christian readers -- Blasphemy, curses, and insults : Yiddish and the Jews' "hidden transcript" -- Ancilla theologiae : Yiddish as a Hilfsmittel for theological studies -- Conclusion : the study of Yiddish and Christian-Jewish relations in early modern Germany -- Yiddish in the Service of Jewish Deception. Introduction : Yiddish in the socioeconomic sphere -- The merchants' tongue : Yiddish and Jewish commerce -- The thieves' jargon : Yiddish and Jewish criminality -- Conclusion : Yiddish as antilanguage -- The Discourse on Yiddish in Early Modern Germany. Introduction : between Hebrew and German : the depictions of Yiddish in Christian writings -- German of the Jews : linguistic affinity and the politics of differentiation -- Yiddish and German in the Judenmission : the limits of linguistic adaptation -- Christian Hebrew and Jewish Yiddish in early modern Germany -- Conclusion : Yiddish-speaking orientals : language shift and the "Verbesserung der Juden".
Note:
Literaturverz. S. 237 - 253 und Index
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