Early Yiddish Epic by Jerold Frakes bilingual and private archives

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a weary traveler named Hershel of Ostropol eagerly approaches a village

Sasha Senderovich finds characters traversing space and history and carrying with them the dislodged practices and archetypes of a lost Jewish world

which was essentially a novelization of Helen’s all-too-short but vibrant life

three thousand Jewish women quietly took up positions on the streets of Manhattan’s Lower East Side

Early Yiddish Epic by Jerold Frakes bilingual and private archivesTranslated by Jerold Frakes Unlike most other ancient European, Near Eastern, and Mediterranean civilizations, Jewish culture surprisingly developed no early epic tradition: while the Bible comprises a broad range of literary genres, epic is not among them. Not until the late medieval period, Beginning in the fourteenth century, did an extensive and thriving epic tradition emerge in Yiddish. Among the few dozen extant early epics, there are several