The early modern Yiddish Bible : from the Mirkevet ha-Mishneh to Blitz and Witzenhausen / Morris M. Faierstein.

[Cincinnati, Ohio] : Hebrew Union College Press, [2024]

lx, 355 pages : illustrations ; 27 x 21 cm

"The subject of this study is every Yiddish work from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that is directly or indirectly related to the Bible. The survey begins with the Mirkevet ha-Mishneh, the first published Yiddish book, which is a biblical concordance, published in Cracow, 1534-36, and concludes with the two competing translations of the entire Bible into Yiddish by Yekutiel Blitz and Joseph Witzenhausen, published in Amsterdam, 1676-86. (These were translations without any accompanying commentaries, and were modeled on Protestant Bibles, like the English King James, or the German Luther Bible.) The study includes not only translations of biblical books, but also adaptations, reworkings, and paraphrases of biblical texts, appearing in diverse literary styles, by a wide variety of authors"-- Provided by publisher.

Online version: Faierstein, Morris M., 1948- Early modern Yiddish Bible [Cincinnati]: [Hebrew Union College Press], [2024]

English; German; Hebrew; Latin; Yiddish

September 19, 2024

Includes bibliographical references and index.