Early Yiddish Epic by Jerold Frakes bilingual which was essentially a novelization

which was essentially a novelization of Helen’s all-too-short but vibrant life

a weary traveler named Hershel of Ostropol eagerly approaches a village

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Early Yiddish Epic by Jerold Frakes bilingual which was essentially a novelizationTranslated by Jerold Frakes Unlike most other ancient European, Near Eastern, and Mediterranean civilizations, Jewish culture surprisingly developed no early epic tradition: while the Bible comprises a broad range of literary genres, epic is not among them. Not until the late medieval period, Beginning in the fourteenth century, did an extensive and thriving epic tradition emerge in Yiddish. Among the few dozen extant early epics, there are several