The Cultural Study of Yiddish in Early Modern Europe

The Cultural Study of Yiddish in Early Modern Europe This volume comprises a unique analysis of the intensive interest in Jewish culture of early modern Christian Humanists as a part of their comprehensive program of study of Greek Latin and Hebrew Th

This volume comprises a unique analysis of the intensive interest in Jewish culture of early modern Christian Humanists as a part of their comprehensive program of study of Greek, Latin, and Hebrew The book focuses on how that interest was particularly manifested in a score of treatises on sixteenth and seventeenth century Yiddish language and literature.