Book of fables
the Yiddish fable collection of Reb Moshe Wallich, Frankfurt am Main, 1697
by Eli Katz
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Book of Fables is a bilingual edition of Sefer Mesholim, an important collection of fables that was published in Yiddish in 1695. Occupying a significant and interesting place in Yiddish literary history, Sefer Mesholim provides valuable insight regarding the development of Yiddish language and literature and offers an unusual perspective on the cultural and social life of contemporary European Jewry.
Now, almost three hundred years after its original publication, Eli Katz has translated the thirty-four fables of Sefer Mesholim, derived principally from the Aesopic canon, and from both medieval Hebrew and German sources. The fables themselves were first adapted for a Yiddish reading audience in 1597 in Verona, Italy, and in the adaptation acquired a distinctively Ashkenazic Jewish flavor with much local Italian-Jewish vocabulary and coloration.
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Yiddish Fables, Fables, Jews, folklore| Edition | Availability |
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Book of Fables: The Yiddish Fable Collection of Reb Moshe Wallich Frankfurt Am Main, 1697 (Jewish Folklore and Anthropology)
August 1994, Wayne State University Press, Brand: Wayne State University Press
Hardcover
in English and Yiddish
0814324495 9780814324493
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Book of fables: the Yiddish fable collection of Reb Moshe Wallich, Frankfurt am Main, 1697
1994, Wayne State University Press
in English
0814324495 9780814324493
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-305).
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