Purim in Altdorf: Johann Christoph Wagenseils Interesse am Jiddischen und dessen Kultur sowie seine Zusammenarbeit mit Johann Christian Jakob (Johan Kemper) und jüdischen Konvertiten im Allgemeinen
This paper investigates the relationship between seventeenth-century Christian Hebraists and Jewish converts by using the example of Johann Christoph Wagenseil and his interest in Yiddish. Special attention is given to the 1697 Purim play found in the Hebraist’s estate and its writer/copyist. By exa...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | German |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2019]
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Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte
Year: 2019, Volume: 71, Issue: 2, Pages: 176-201 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Wagenseil, Johann Christoph 1633-1705
/ Yiddish
/ Judaism
/ Custom
/ Conversion (Religion)
/ Kemper, Johan 1670-1716
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| IxTheo Classification: | AX Inter-religious relations BH Judaism CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations TJ Modern history |
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| Summary: | This paper investigates the relationship between seventeenth-century Christian Hebraists and Jewish converts by using the example of Johann Christoph Wagenseil and his interest in Yiddish. Special attention is given to the 1697 Purim play found in the Hebraist’s estate and its writer/copyist. By examining Wagenseil’s interest in this play and by identifying the converts connected to him as well as by analyzing the tasks allotted to them, this paper aims to shed light on the transmission of knowledge about Jewish popular culture among Christian Hebraists in particular and to reconsider the importance of converts for the studies of the latter in general. |
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| ISSN: | 1570-0739 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15700739-07102005 |