Medieval and Early Modern Jewish Romance

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Edited by Caroline Gruenbaum, Annegret Oehme, University of Washington

Publisher:: Amsterdam University Press
Online publication date:: February 2024
Print publication year:: 2023
Online ISBN:: 9781802701333
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781802701333

Subjects:: Regional and World History: General Interest, History
Series:: Jewish Engagements

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This study features essays from leading scholars highlighting the important Jewish contributions to the popular medieval genre of romance. Writing against strict notions of genre boundaries and canonization, this volume provides a new understanding of medieval and early modern romance through a working definition consisting of variable elements, including language, literary devices, plot, and characters. The contributions in this volume establish that many texts written in the medieval and early modern Jewish communities across Europe and beyond can be classified as 'romance'. Each of the nine chapters as well as the afterword by Eli Yassif discusses romance as it relates to the medieval and early modern Jewish world, as well as the greater non-Jewish context. This volume places Jewish texts into the scholarly conversation as sources for forming a new understanding of the genre of romance across religious and cultural boundaries.

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Medieval and Early Modern Jewish Romance

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

List of Illustrations
pp viii-viii

Acknowledgements
pp ix-x

Introduction
pp 1-14

The Zohar as Medieval Jewish Romance
pp 15-34

Letters of Loathing: Immanuel of Rome and Romance Epistolary
pp 35-48

Illuminated Knights and Tales of Romance in the Rothschild Miscellany
pp 49-72

The Queen Nudatio: A Romanesque (?) Topos in Israel Caslari's Roman d’Esther
pp 73-94

At the Court of the Demon King: The Story of the Jerusalemite and Chivalric Romance
pp 95-106

Melekh Artus as a Jewish Romance: Horizons of Expectation and Genre Configurations
pp 107-128

A Friend in Need is a Friend Indeed?Friendship, Love, and Loyalty in the Yiddish Seven Sages of Rome
pp 129-152

Stealing Back One's Husband: The Yiddish Mayse mi-Danzek in the Context of Early Modern German Cross-Dressing Narratives
pp 153-170

Romance Elements in Meshal Haqadmoni by Isaac Ibn Sahula: A New Reading
pp 171-196

Afterword: Jewish Romance in Search of Identity
pp 197-207

Select Bibliography
pp 208-211

Index
pp 212-214

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