[Mendele] [Correcting subject line] Mendele Personal Notices and Announcements:Introduction to Old and Middle Yiddish 20 July - 15 August 2014 at the Summer Program of the Vilnius Yiddish Institute

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Mendele Personal Notices and Announcements:Introduction to Old and Middle
Yiddish
20 July - 15 August 2014 at the Summer Program of the Vilnius Yiddish
Institute

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Introduction to Old and Middle Yiddish
20 July - 15 August 2014
at the Summer Program of the Vilnius Yiddish Institute
Instructor: Jerold C. Frakes

http://www.judaicvilnius.com/en/main/in_news?ID=136

This course is intended as a supplementary course for Intermediate II and
Advanced students in the program. It is based on the new textbook of Old
and Middle Yiddish written by the instructor, which presents a
comprehensive and systematic introduction to the grammar and vocabulary of
earlyYiddish through the guided reading of three entertaining and
culturally important literary texts of the period (_Yoysef ha-tsadik_ from
the Cairo geniza, the adventure tale _Briyo ve-Zimro_, and one canto from
the Renaissance romance epic _Paris un Viene_). Along the way there are
very brief and fun supplementary readings added to individual lessons, such
as the Worms mahzor couplet from 1272, excerpts from letters, riddles,
potion recipes, the final paragraph of the “Khad gadye,” etc., which
provides a bit more variety and a broader sense of the range of extant
texts. The whole is divided into individual lessons with portions of the
focal texts small enough to be dealt with in a class period. Only authentic
Old Yiddish texts are used (no newly invented pseudo-Old Yiddish practice
sentences). All words from all the texts are fully glossed in the textbook.
The emphasis will be on guiding students who know modern Yiddish into
making use of that knowledge to learn to read Old Yiddish. Facsimile pages
from the medieval and early modern original texts will be introduced in the
class. Thus by the end of the course, students will be able to read
medieval and early modern Yiddish in both modern text editions and from
original manuscript and early printed books.

Old and Middle Yiddish are the earlier stages of modern Yiddish, much as
Old English (_Beowulf_) and Middle English (Chaucer) are the earlier stages
of modern English. With Yiddish, fortunately, these earlier stages are
much, much closer in form to the modern language, so that those who know
modern Yiddish can learn to read texts from the earlier periods rather
quickly and without too much pain. The scope and importance of Old and
Middle Yiddish literature (fourteen-eighteenth centuries) is unfortunately
still not widely known even among students and scholars of Jewish Studies.
This body of literature encompasses essentially the same range of genres
found in French, English, Italian, and German literature of the period,
i.e. love poetry, epic poetry, historical poetry, an early newspaper,
medical and legal texts, debate poems, midrashic texts, fables, a guide to
tax preparation, letters, liturgical poems, magical incantations, satirical
poems, adventure tales, and travel guides. Old Yiddish literature is an
essential complement to Hebrew literature of the period — a knowledge of
one without the other offers only an incomplete portrait of Ashkenazic
intellectual life of that time.

For further information, contact Jerold C. Frakes: jcfrakes at buffalo.edu




















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