Entangled stories: the red Jews in premodern yiddish and german apocalyptic lore

“Far, far away from our areas, somewhere beyond the Mountains of Darkness, on the other side of the Sambatyon River…there lives a nation known as the Red Jews.” The Red Jews are best known from classic Yiddish writing, most notably from Mendele's Kitser masoes Binyomin hashlishi (The Brief Trav...

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Subtitles:Research Article
Main Author: Voß, Rebekka 1977- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Pennsylvania Press [2012]
In: AJS review
Year: 2012, Volume: 36, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-41
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Red / Jews / Yiddish / German language / Literature / Judaism / Christianity / Polemics
RelBib Classification:BH Judaism
Further subjects:B Jewish peoples
B Folktales
B Judaism
B Christian History
B Polemics
B Allegory
B Piyyut
B Jewish History
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