Early Yiddish Epic by Jerold Frakes bilingual In Hebrew (derived from the

In Hebrew (derived from the original Arabic)

a weary traveler named Hershel of Ostropol eagerly approaches a village

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Meryl’s search reveals a lost world destroyed by hatred

Early Yiddish Epic by Jerold Frakes bilingual In Hebrew (derived from theTranslated 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