Early Ashkenazic Poems about the Binding of Isaac

This article reviews a corpus of poems retelling the Binding of Isaac composed by Ashkenazic Jews (mainly from the German territories) during the Middle Ages and early modern era. The poems, written in both languages of the Ashkenazim – the vernacular Yiddish and the literary Hebrew – are: Akeda Piy...

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Auteur principal: Roman, Oren, Jerusalem 1978- (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: De Gruyter 2016
Dans: Naharaim
Année: 2016, Volume: 10, Numéro: 2, Pages: 175-194
Sujets non-standardisés:B Binding of Isaac Piyyut, Yiddish Sacrifice of Isaac Ashkenaz
Accès en ligne: Volltext (Verlag)

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