TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bernuth,Ruth Von
AU  - Bibring,Tovi
AU  - Boyarin,Shamma
AU  - Fishbane,Eitan P.
AU  - Fishkin,Dana
AU  - Gruenbaum,Caroline
AU  - Kushelevsky,Rella
AU  - Lembke,Astrid
AU  - Oehme,Annegret
AU  - Offenberg,Sara
AU  - Refael-Vivante,Revital
AU  - Yassif,Eli
TI  - Medieval and Early Modern Jewish Romance
T2  - Jewish Engagements
SN  - 9781802701333
U1  - 296.09 
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - Leeds
PB  - ARC Humanities Press
KW  - Jewish literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Romances
KW  - Romances, Hebrew
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Hebrew Arthurian romance
KW  - Medieval vernacular literature
KW  - premodern Jewish culture
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; List of Illustrations --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; The Zohar as Medieval Jewish Romance --; Letters of Loathing: Immanuel of Rome and Romance Epistolary --; Illuminated Knights and Tales of Romance in the Rothschild Miscellany --; The Queen Nudatio: A Romanesque (?) Topos in Israel Caslari’s Roman d’Esther --; At the Court of the Demon King: The Story of the Jerusalemite and Chivalric Romance --; Melekh Artus as a Jewish Romance: Horizons of Expectation and Genre Configurations --; A Friend in Need is a Friend Indeed? Friendship, Love, and Loyalty in the Yiddish Seven Sages of Rome --; Stealing Back One’s Husband: The Yiddish Mayse mi-Danzek in the Context of Early Modern German Cross-Dressing Narratives --; Romance Elements in Meshal haQadmoni by Isaac Ibn Sahula: A New Reading --; Afterword: Jewish Romance in Search of Identity --; Select Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - This study features essays from leading scholars highlighting the important Jewish contributions to the popular medieval genre of romance. Writing against strict notions of genre boundaries and canonization, this volume provides a new understanding of medieval and early modern romance through a working definition consisting of variable elements, including language, literary devices, plot, and characters. The contributions in this volume establish that many texts written in the medieval and early modern Jewish communities across Europe and beyond can be classified as "romance.” Each of the nine chapters as well as the afterword by Eli Yassif discusses romance as it relates to the medieval and early modern Jewish world, as well as the greater non-Jewish context. This volume places Jewish texts into the scholarly conversation as sources for forming a new understanding of the genre of romance across religious and cultural boundaries
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781802701333?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781802701333
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781802701333/original
ER  -