Opens up to a more general audience the cultural richness of that broad and deep corpus of literature that stretches from its beginnings in the Middle Ages to t... » 

Opens up to a more general audience the cultural richness of that broad and deep corpus of literature that stretches from its beginnings in the Middle Ages to the mid-eighteenth century. This book provides students and scholars of medieval, Renaissance, and early modern European cultures with a survey of the deep literary tradition in Yiddish. «