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Literary Innovation In Yiddish Sea Travel Narratives, Ken Frieden
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.
Book Review -- A Woman's Voice By Morris Rosenthal, Jeanne Bohannon
Book Review -- A Woman's Voice By Morris Rosenthal, Jeanne Bohannon
Jeanne Law Bohannon
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