A goy who speaks Yiddish Christians and the Jewish language in early modern Germany
Title:
A goy who speaks Yiddish Christians and the Jewish language in early modern Germany
Author:
Elyada, Aya, 1977- author.
ISBN:
9780804782821
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Publication Information:
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2012.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (p. cm.)
Series:
Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
Contents:
Yiddish in the service of Christian theology. Introduction : Christian Hebraism and the study of Yiddish in early modern Europe -- Yiddish 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."
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