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Literary Innovation In Yiddish Sea Travel Narratives, Ken Frieden Jan 2014

Literary Innovation In Yiddish Sea Travel Narratives, Ken Frieden

Ken Frieden

Sea travel was an influential literary genre in Europe in the eighteenth century, and this genre subsequently influenced enlightened and Hasidic Jewish circles. As a result, the genre of sea narratives assumed a significant role in the rise of modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature. This article considers the place of Yiddish sea narratives--adapted from Campe's Reisebeschreibungen and in Hasidic writings--in the early nineteenth century. Both enlightened and Hasidic authors shaped modern Yiddish and Hebrew prose.


Yiddish In Abramovitsh's Literary Revival Of Hebrew, Ken Frieden Jan 2012

Yiddish In Abramovitsh's Literary Revival Of Hebrew, Ken Frieden

Ken Frieden

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Innovation By Translation: Yiddish And Hasidic Hebrew In Literary History, Ken Frieden Jan 2008

Innovation By Translation: Yiddish And Hasidic Hebrew In Literary History, Ken Frieden

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