Early Yiddish Epic by Jerold Frakes bilingual Sasha Senderovich finds characters traversing

Sasha Senderovich finds characters traversing space and history and carrying with them the dislodged practices and archetypes of a lost Jewish world

a weary traveler named Hershel of Ostropol eagerly approaches a village

Gabriel's Palace offers a treasury of 150 pithy and powerful tales

In Hebrew (derived from the original Arabic)

Early Yiddish Epic by Jerold Frakes bilingual Sasha Senderovich finds characters traversingTranslated by Jerold Frakes Unlike most other ancient European, Near Eastern, and Mediterranean civilizations, Jewish culture surprisingly developed no early epic tradition: while the Bible comprises a broad range of literary genres, epic is not among them. Not until the late medieval period, Beginning in the fourteenth century, did an extensive and thriving epic tradition emerge in Yiddish. Among the few dozen extant early epics, there are several