The Early Modern Yiddish Bible: From the Mirkevet Ha-mishneh to Blitz and Witzenhausen by Morris M. Faierstein Yiddish Learning and preparing their students for

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His works have received numerous prestigious literary awards in Israel as well as international critical acclaim

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The Early Modern Yiddish Bible: From the Mirkevet Ha-mishneh to Blitz and Witzenhausen by Morris M. Faierstein Yiddish Learning and preparing their students forThe translation of the Bible into the vernacular is a venerable Jewish tradition, more than two thousand years old. Ashkenazi Jewish culture was a latecomer to the vernacular Bible, and it was only in the sixteenth century that the Yiddish Bible made its appearance in print. Almost one hundred years ago, Wilhelm Staerk and Albert Leitzmann's survey of Early Modern Yiddish Bible translations were the first attempt to define this genre of Early Modern