In the Demon's Bedroom: Yiddish Literature and the Early Modern

by Jeremy Dauber

Overview

This important study is the first to offer a sustained look at a variety of early modern Yiddish masterworks—and their writers and readers—paying particular attention to their treatment of supernatural themes and beings.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780300141757
Publisher:	Yale University Press
Publication date:	12/14/2010
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Jeremy Dauber is the Atran Associate Professor of Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture at Columbia University and the director of Columbia’s Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies.

Editorial Reviews

"Beautifully argued . . . extremely sophisticated and convincing . . . In the Demon's Bedroom will offer literary studies a new and important means of discussing early modern texts."—Leah Garrett, Monash University

Leah Garrett

"Utterly original . . . Dauber's rehabilitation of Old Yiddish Literature, his attempt to rescue it from the German and Italian ghettos, is something markedly new. If you love to be shepherded through exotic realms, if you are excited by big ideas, this is the book for you."—David Roskies, Jewish Theological Seminary

David Roskies