While much early Yiddish literature belonged to pious genres, quasi-secular genres-epic, drama, and lyric-also developed. Jerold Frakes contends that the historical context of the emergence of Yiddish literature is an essential factor in any understanding of its cultural relevance in a time and place where Jewish life was defined by expulsions, massacres, and discriminatory legislation that profoundly altered European Judaism and shook the very foundations of traditional Jewish society.
- ISBN10 0253025680
- ISBN13 9780253025685
- Publish Date 26 June 2017
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Indiana University Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 352
- Language English