The Jewish Pope

To what extent do Yiddish language and literature derive from the dominant values of mainstream European culture? Sherman deals with such questions in his close examination of the recurring treatment of the myth of the Jewish Pope in four Yiddish literary texts dating from between 1602 and 1943

Autorentext

Joseph Sherman

Inhalt

1: Why?; 2: The Master-Narrative and its Ambiguities; 3: The Mayse-bukh and the Debut of the Myth; 4: Ayzik-Meir Dik, Reformer through Fiction; 5: Y. Y. Trunk and the Myth after the Holocaust; 6: Radical Subversion with Isaac Bashevis Singer; 7: The Case of Israel Zangwill; 8: A Kind of Closure