The Melits Yosher and the Audience for Early Modern Yiddish Literature
- 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.
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| Author details: | Morris M. FaiersteinGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-445900 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.25932/publishup-44590 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-86956-468-5 |
| ISSN: | 1614-6492 |
| ISSN: | 1862-7684 |
| Title of parent work (German): | PaRDeS: Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien = Transformative Translations in Jewish History and Culture |
| Publisher: | Universitätsverlag Potsdam |
| Place of publishing: | Potsdam |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2019/12/06 |
| Publication year: | 2019 |
| Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
| Publishing institution: | Universitätsverlag Potsdam |
| Release date: | 2020/06/18 |
| Volume: | 2019 |
| Issue: | 25 |
| Number of pages: | 20 |
| First page: | 23 |
| Last Page: | 42 |
| Source: | PaRDeS / Heft 25 (2019) / ISBN: 978-3-86956-468-5, S. 23-42 |
| RVK - Regensburg classification: | BD 1680 |
| Organizational units: | Extern / Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien e. V. |
| Philosophische Fakultät / Institut für Jüdische Studien und Religionswissenschaft | |
| DDC classification: | 2 Religion / 20 Religion / 200 Religion |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Publishing method: | Universitätsverlag Potsdam |
| Collection(s): | Universität Potsdam / Zeitschriften / PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien e.V., ISSN 1862-7684 / PaRDeS (2019) 25 / Articles |
| License (German): |  CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
