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Yiddish literature

Yiddish literature encompasses all those belles-lettres written in Yiddish, the language of Ashkenazic Jewry which is related to Middle High German. The history of Yiddish, with its roots in central Europe and locus for centuries in Eastern Europe, is evident in its literature.

It is generally described as having three historical phases: Old Yiddish literature; Haskalah and Hasidic literature; and modern Yiddish literature. While firm dates for these periods are hard to pin down, Old Yiddish can be said to have existed roughly from 1300 to 1780; Haskalah and Hasidic literature from 1780 to about 1890; and modern Yiddish literature from 1864 to the present.

California Institute for Yiddish Culture and Language

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Estraikh, Gennady. In Harness: Yiddish Writers’ Romance with Communism (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2005)  0-8156-3052-2

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Frieden, Ken. Classic Yiddish Fiction: Abramovitsh, Sholem Aleichem, and Peretz (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995).  0-7914-2602-5

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Glasser, Amelia (trans.) Proletpen: America’s Rebel Yiddish Poets (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005)  0-299-20800-1

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“Ma’aseh books,” “Aksenfed, Israel,” “Ettinger (Oetinger),” “Dick, Isaac Mayer”. Jewish Encyclopedia (1904–11). 11 August 2006

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Miron, Dan. A Traveler Disguised: A Study in the Rise of Modern Yiddish Fiction in the Nineteenth Century. (New York: Schocken, 1973; reprint edition Syracuse University Press, 1996).  0-8156-0330-4

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Norich, Anita. The Homeless Imagination in the Fiction of Israel Joshua Singer (Bloomington: IUP, 1991)  0-253-34109-4

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Riemer, Nathanael: Some parallels of stories in Glikls of Hameln "Zikhroynes". In: PaRDeS. Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien e.V. (2008) Nr. 14, S. 125–148.

Roskies, David G. A Bridge of Longing: The Lost Art of Yiddish Storytelling (Harvard University Press, 1996)  0-674-08140-4, ISBN 978-0-674-08140-6

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Seidman, Naomi. A Marriage Made in Heaven: the Sexual Politics of Hebrew and Yiddish (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1997)  0-520-20193-0

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Sokoloff, Naomi, Anne Lapidus Lerner and Anita Norich, eds. Gender and Text in Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literature. New York: JTSA, 1992.  0-674-34198-8

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Wex, Michael. Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language And Culture in All Its Moods. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2005).  0-312-30741-1

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Wisse, Ruth. A Little Love in Big Manhattan: Two Yiddish Poets (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988)  0-674-53659-2

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“Yiddish literature.” Written by Ken Frieden. Encyclopædia Britannica. 2006. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 31 July 2006

"Yiddish literature", “” and “Nahman of Bratslav”. Reader’s Guide to Judaism, ed. Michael Terry (Chicago, New York: Fitzroy Dearborn: 2000). ISBN 1-57958-139-0

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Steinhoff, Thorsten. Zeitgenössische jiddische Lyrik Odessaer Autoren (Regensburg) : [Lehrstuhl für Neuere Dt. Literaturwiss. I der Univ.], [1996], Als Ms. gedr.