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001 2012014468
003 DLC
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008 120406s2012 cau b 001 0 eng c
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020 $a9780804781930 (cloth : alk. paper)
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050 00 $aPJ5112$b.E59 2012
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100 1 $aElyada, Aya,$d1977-$eauthor.
245 12 $aA goy who speaks Yiddish :$bChristians and the Jewish language in early modern Germany /$cAya Elyada.
260 $aStanford, California :$bStanford University Press,$c2012.
263 $a1210
300 $apages cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aStanford studies in Jewish history and culture
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aYiddish in the service of Christian theology. Introduction : Christian Hebraism and the study of Yiddish in early modern Europe -- Yiddish in the Judenmission -- "From the Jews' own books" : Yiddish literature, Christian readers -- Blasphemy, curses, and insults : Yiddish and the Jews' "hidden transcript" -- Ancilla theologiae : Yiddish as a Hilfsmittel for theological studies -- Conclusion : the study of Yiddish and Christian-Jewish relations in early modern Germany -- Yiddish in the Service of Jewish Deception. Introduction : Yiddish in the socioeconomic sphere -- The merchants' tongue : Yiddish and Jewish commerce -- The thieves' jargon : Yiddish and Jewish criminality -- Conclusion : Yiddish as antilanguage -- The Discourse on Yiddish in Early Modern Germany. Introduction : between Hebrew and German : the depictions of Yiddish in Christian writings -- German of the Jews : linguistic affinity and the politics of differentiation -- Yiddish and German in the Judenmission : the limits of linguistic adaptation -- Christian Hebrew and Jewish Yiddish in early modern Germany -- Conclusion : Yiddish-speaking orientals : language shift and the "Verbesserung der Juden".
650 0 $aYiddish language$xStudy and teaching$zGermany$xHistory.
650 0 $aYiddish literature$xStudy and teaching$zGermany$xHistory.
650 0 $aChristian literature, German$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aYiddish language in literature.
650 0 $aChristianity and other religions$xJudaism.
650 0 $aJudaism$xRelations$xChristianity.
650 0 $aChristian scholars$zGermany$xHistory.
830 0 $aStanford studies in Jewish history and culture.