Anshel Levi

An Old Yiddish Midrash to the 'Chapters of the Fathers'

by Yaacov J. Maitlis

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Extent: 232 pages

Publisher: The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities

Subjects: Jewish Studies, Literary Studies

Series: Sources and Studies in Jewish Languages

Language: Hebrew, Yiddish

Hardback (Published)

(December 1979)

ISBN: 9789652080059

Price: $20.00

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Anshel Levi’s sixteenth-century work has survived in a manuscript in his own handwriting. Its first part is a translation and commentary on the Chapters of the Fathers in Yiddish. The commentary is interpolated with a medley of rabbinical legends, fables and folk tales, reminiscent of popular midrashim like the Ts’enah uR’enah. The second part contains a supplementary collection of 28 stories.

  • By (author) Yaacov J. Maitlis