RT Article
T1 A Note on an Old Jewish Bibliotaphos
JF Zutot
VO 17
IS 1
SP 49
OP 57
A1 Rosenzweig, Claudia
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1692893173
AB In the editio princeps of the Mayse-bukh (Basel 1602) are circa 250 stories. The last one is a translation/reworking of a story that appears in Sefer Hasidim, and is about a bibliotaphos, someone who is ready to bury his books, but not to lend them. In this short paper, I try to show the differences between the Yiddish and the Hebrew source, suggesting that these differences can hint at historical and social transformations of the reading public of Yiddish texts in the Early Modern era.
K1 Early Modern Yiddish
K1 Mayse-bukh
K1 Old Yiddish literature
K1 Sefer Hasidim
K1 bibliotaphos
K1 history of reading
DO 10.1163/18750214-12171086