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Record Nr.

UNINA9910974876703321

Autore

Frakes Jerold C

Titolo

The politics of interpretation : alterity and ideology in Old Yiddish studies / / Jerold C. Frakes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, N.Y., : State University of New York Press, c1989

ISBN

9781438403151

1438403151

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource e (xv, 283 pages)

Disciplina

437/.947

Soggetti

Yiddish philology - Historiography

Yiddish literature - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes indexes.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-276) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table Of Contents -- Preface -- Contents -- Alterity, Ideologies, and Old Yiddish -- The Names of Old Yiddish -- Alterity, Accessibility, Audience, Alphabet: On Editing Old Yiddish Texts -- The New Paradigm(s) -- Back Matter -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Author-Title Index -- General Index -- Scholar Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This study examines the critical ideologies that have shaped the perception, reception, and projection of Old Yiddish during the course of the past century. The first critical, historical survey of the history of scholarship in the field, it confronts the assumptions underlying the research-assumptions of cultural identity and the value of the literature of that culture. It documents the pervasive denial that Yiddish is a language and that Yiddish literature is intrinsically valuable, or the assertion that this literature is German and a product of German culture.