TY  - JOUR
A1  - Faierstein, Morris M.
T1  - The Melits Yosher and the Audience for Early Modern Yiddish Literature
T2  - PaRDeS: Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien = Transformative Translations in Jewish History and Culture
N2  - Rabbi Jacob ben Isaac of Yanova (d. 1623) is best known as the author of the Ze’enah U-Re’enah; the Melits Yosher (“Intercessor before God”) is one of his lesser known works. It was first published in Lublin in 1622 and reprinted once in Amsterdam in 1688. Like the Ze’enah U-Re’enah, it was a Torah commentary, but composed for men who had some yeshivah education, but who could not continue their studies. The commentary on the Song of Songs by Isaac Sulkes is another Yiddish work that addresses the same audience as the Melits Yosher. The purpose of this article is to bring to scholarly attention an audience that has not been noticed or studied in the previous scholarship on early modern Yiddish literature.
Y1  - 2019
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/44590
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-445900
SN  - 978-3-86956-468-5
SN  - 1614-6492
SN  - 1862-7684
VL  - 2019
IS  - 25
SP  - 23
EP  - 42
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  -