PREFACE

CONTENTS

CHRESTOMATHY

I. INTRODUCTION

II. THE JUDEO-GERMAN LANGUAGE

III. FOLKLORE

IV. THE FOLKSONG

V. PRINTED POPULAR POETRY

VI. OTHER ASPECTS OF POETRY BEFORE THE EIGHTIES

VII. POETRY SINCE THE EIGHTIES IN RUSSIA

VIII. POETRY SINCE THE EIGHTIES IN AMERICA

IX. PROSE WRITERS FROM 1817-1863

X. PROSE WRITERS FROM 1863-1881: ABRAMOWITSCH

XI. PROSE WRITERS FROM 1863-1881: LINETZKI, DICK

XII. PROSE WRITERS SINCE 1881: SPEKTOR

XIII. PROSE WRITERS SINCE 1881: RABINOWITSCH, PEREZ

XIV. PROSE WRITERS SINCE 1881: IN AMERICA

XV. THE JEWISH THEATRE

XVI. OTHER ASPECTS OF LITERATURE

CHRESTOMATHY (2)

I I. ECCLESIASTES (Chap. I. 1-11)

II II. DIE MALPE ('Mescholim,' etc., p. 106)

III III. DAIGES N?CH DEM T?DT ('Mescholim,' etc., p. 225)

IV IV. DER ELENDER SUCHT DIE RUHE ('Makel Noam,' Vol. I. pp. 71-75)

V V. DIWREE CHOCHMO ('Saeefer Musser Haskel,' pp. 22, 23)

VI VI. DIE STIEFMUTTER ('Judische Lieder,' pp. 40-43)

VII VII. DIE MUME SOSJE ('Die Judene,' pp. 65-67)

VIII VIII. SEMER LE-SSIMCHAS T?RE ('Ssichas Chulin,' pp. 30-34)

IX IX. DIE KLATSCHE ('Die Klatsche,' Odessa, 1889, pp. 17-20)

X X. TUNEJADEWKE ('Binj?min ha-Schlischi,' pp. 6-9)

XI XI. A HARTER BISSEN ( Hausfreund , Vol. II. pp. 22-25)

XII XII. STEMPENJU'S FIEDELE ('Stempenju,' pp. 8-10)

XIII XIII. DER TALMUD ( Judische Volksbiblioth?k , Vol. II. pp. 195-197)

XIV XIV. D?S JuDISCHE KIND ( Hausfreund , p. 44)

XV XV. DER ADELIGER K?TER ( Emeth , Vol. I. p. 62)

XVI XVI. JONKIPER ( Hausfreund , Vol. II. pp. 88-91)

XVII XVII. AUF'N BUSEN VUN JAM ('Songs from the Ghetto,' [120] pp. 70-76)

XVIII XVIII. BONZJE SCHWEIG' ( Literatur un' Leben , pp. 11-22)

I. APPENDIX BIBLIOGRAPHY

I. APPENDIX BIBLIOGRAPHY (2)

II. APPENDIX NAMES OF AUTHORS AND THEIR PSEUDONYMS

INDEX

THE HISTORY OF YIDDISH LITERATURE

IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

THE   HISTORY
OF
YIDDISH   LITERATURE

IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

BY
LEO   WIENER
INSTRUCTOR IN THE SLAVIC LANGUAGES
AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY

NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1899



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