The Cultural Study of Yiddish in Early Modern Europe [Hardcover]

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.Preface Christian Humanism and the Jews Humanism and Yiddish Humanist Scholarship and the Study of Yiddish Texts/Translations Johannes B?schenstein, Elementale Introductorium in hebreas litteras teutonice et hebraice legendas / Elementary Introduction to Reading German and Hebrew in Hebrew Letters (1514) Sebastian M?nster, 'Intitutio breuis, quomodo uernacula qu?que lingua Hebraicis characteribus cribi poit'/ A Brief Introduction to How the Vernacular Language can be Written in Hebrew Characters Institutiones grammaticae in hebraeam linguam / Grammatical Principles of the Hebrew Language (1524) Anonymous, 'Here Follows How One Can Learn to Read Yiddish'/ The Book of Measures (1542) Paulus Fagius, 'De variis literarvm figuris sev notvlis' / 'On Various Forms and Pointings of Letters,' from Compendiaria isagoge in linguam hebr?am / A Brief Introduction to the Hebrew Language (1543) Paulus Fagius, 'Svccincta ratio legendi hebr?o-germanica' / 'A Concise Method for Reading Hebrew-German,' from Prima qvatvor capita Geneseos / The First Four Chapters of Genesis (1543) Paul Helicz, Elemental / oder leseb?chlen / Primer, or Reader (Hundesfeld 1543) Michael Adam, 'How to Read and Write Yiddish,' / Yosifo (1546) Elias Schad?us, 'Ein gewisser Bericht von der Teutsch Hebreischen Schrifft deren ich die Juden gebrauchen' / 'A Reliable/Certain Report on the Germano-Hebrew Script,' from Mysterium (1592) Thomas Blebelius, 'Isagoge brevissima exhibens rationem legendi et scribendi Hebr?o-germanicum' / 'Very Brief Introduction Expounding the Principles of Reading and Writing Hebrew-German', from Compendium Hebr?? Lingv? / Precis of the Hebrew Language (159lš