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Bovo d'Antona by Elye Bokher. a Yiddish Romance: A Critical Edition with Commentary
Contributor(s): Rosenzweig, Claudia (Author)
ISBN: 9004306846     ISBN-13: 9789004306844
Publisher: Brill
OUR PRICE:   $272.65  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: November 2015
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Social History
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General
- Literary Criticism | European - German
Dewey: 839.111
LCCN: 2015031128
Series: Studies in Jewish History and Culture
Physical Information: 1.4" H x 6.2" W x 9.3" (2.12 lbs) 600 pages
 
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Bovo d'Antona by Elye Bokher (Elyiahu ben Asher haLevi Ashkenazi, 1469-1549) is a chivalry poem written in Yiddish in Padoa, in the year 1507, and printed under the author's supervision in Isny (Germany) in the year 1541. The present book intends to present a critical edition of this poem, together with a commentary. An introduction will focus on various related questions, such as the place of the Bovo d'Antona in European literature and in Italian literature, Bovo d'Antona and the chivalric genre in Old Yiddish literature, the analysis of the manuscript versions in comparison with the printed edition, the relationship with the Italian source and the readership. An appendix will deal with later transformations of the Bovo-Bukh.

"Bovo Bukh is an excellent example of the relationship between romances and folktales, and Rosenzweigʼs introduction and edition of this important early Yiddish text will be appreciated by scholars of early Modern literature and folk narrative." - Dr. David Elton Gay, Indiana University, in: Fabula 59:1-2 (2018)