The Range of Yiddish
A Catalog of an Exhibition from the Yiddish Collection of the Harvard College Library
Marion Aptroot and Jeremy Dauber
Harvard University Press
The facsimiles of Yiddish documents and title pages reproduced in this volume, their captions, and the accompanying introductory essays are a succinct introduction to Yiddish culture. They cover religion, education and daily life, politics, Yiddish literature, history, and scholarship, Yiddish theater, and the Yiddish press, as reflected in materials printed over the last 400 years.
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