Sourced narrative
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8 statements
Statements for this event
Migrants preserved Yiddish in Poland-Lithuania, where the language absorbed Slavic elements.
No comparable Judeo-Polish language emerged.
Jacob ben Isaac Ashkenazi produced the Tsenerene, an accessible Yiddish rendering of biblical readings.
The work addressed both men and women who lacked Hebrew education.
Boys received formal Hebrew instruction, while girls learned mainly through informal Yiddish education.
Tkhines gave women Yiddish prayers tied to female religious practices.
Spanish and Portuguese manuals taught Jewish law and practice to adults.
Glickl of Hameln recorded in her seventeenth-century memoir Hamburg's reaction to news about Shabbatai Zvi.
§ 01Geography
Where it happened
§ 03Historiography
What scholars debate
Scholarly debate · 01
Was Yiddish literature women's literature?
2 positions · no single answer · take a seat →
- A
Female use
Period terminology
Terms such as vaybertaytsh associated the vernacular with women.
- B
Public lacking Hebrew
Title pages and authors
Works such as the Tsenerene explicitly addressed both men and women.
§ 04Network
Connections
§ 05Bibliography
Further reading
No specific reading recorded for this event.
§ 06Apparatus
Sources on this page
- 01Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 245inspect
- 02Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 253inspect
- 03Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 245inspect
- 04Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 245inspect
- 05Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 245inspect
- 06Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 246inspect
- 07Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 247inspect
- 08Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 260inspect
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