Introduction to Old Yiddish Literature - Baumgarten, Jean (, Directeur de Recherche (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre des Hautes Etudes Juives, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales)

Opens up to a more general audience the cultural richness of that broad and deep corpus of literature that stretches from its beginnings in the Middle Ages to the mid-eighteenth century. This book provides students and scholars of medieval, Renaissance, and early modern European cultures with a survey of the deep literary tradition in Yiddish.