| Description |
1 online resource : color illustrations |
| Series |
Jewish engagements |
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Jewish engagements.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Caroline Gruenbaum and Annegret Oehme -- The Zohar as Medieval Jewish Romance / Eitan P. Fishbane -- Letters of Loathing : Immanuel of Rome and Romance epistolary / Dana Fishkin -- Illuminated Knights and Tales of Romance in the Rothschild Miscellany / Sara Offenberg -- The Queen Nudatio : A Romanesque (?) Topos in Israel Caslari's Roman d'Esther / Tovi Bibring -- At the Court of the Demon King : The Story of the Jerusalemite and Chivalric Romance / Shamma Boyarin -- Melekh Artus as a Jewish Romance : horizons of expectation and genre configurations / Rella Kushelevsky -- A Friend in Need is a Friend Indeed? : Friendship, love, and loyalty in the Yiddish Seven Sages of Rome / Ruth Von Bernuth -- Stealing Back One's Husband : the Yiddish Mayse mi-Danzek in the context of early modern German cross-dressing narratives / Astrid Lembke -- Romance Elements in Meshal haQadmoni by Isaac Ibn Sahula : a new reading / Revital Rafael-Vivante -- Afterword : Jewish romance in search of identity / Eli Yassif |
| Summary |
This study features essays from leading scholars highlighting the important Jewish contributions to the popular medieval genre of romance. Writing against strict notions of genre boundaries and canonization, this volume provides a new understanding of medieval and early modern romance through a working definition consisting of variable elements, including language, literary devices, plot, and characters. The contributions in this volume establish that many texts written in the medieval and early modern Jewish communities across Europe and beyond can be classified as "romance.? Each of the nine chapters as well as the afterword by Eli Yassif discusses romance as it relates to the medieval and early modern Jewish world, as well as the greater non-Jewish context. This volume places Jewish texts into the scholarly conversation as sources for forming a new understanding of the genre of romance across religious and cultural boundaries.0 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Romances -- History and criticism
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Romances, Hebrew -- History and criticism
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Jewish literature -- History and criticism
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Yiddish literature -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval.
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Romances, Hebrew
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Romances
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Jewish literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gruenbaum, Caroline, editor
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Oehme, Annegret, editor.
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| ISBN |
1802701338 |
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9781802701333 |
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