Early Yiddish Epic by Jerold Frakes bilingual Meryl’s search reveals a lost

Meryl’s search reveals a lost world destroyed by hatred

Mark Strand

It is studded with images that are surprising and yet never strained or irrelevant

Gabriel's Palace offers a treasury of 150 pithy and powerful tales

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Early Yiddish Epic by Jerold Frakes bilingual Meryl’s search reveals a lostTranslated by Jerold Frakes Unlike most other ancient European, Near Eastern, and Mediterranean civilizations, Jewish culture surprisingly developed no early epic tradition: while the Bible comprises a broad range of literary genres, epic is not among them. Not until the late medieval period, Beginning in the fourteenth century, did an extensive and thriving epic tradition emerge in Yiddish. Among the few dozen extant early epics, there are several