Reading Across Cultures: Translating Romances, Fables, and Poetry in Medieval Ashkenaz - Hardcover

Reading across Cultures explores a body of innovative Jewish literary works from the Middle Ages. In late twelfth- and thirteenth-century Ashkenaz--the Jewish communities in northern France, Germany, and England--Jewish authors translated several Old French and German stories into Hebrew. These stories are distinctly non-Jewish, drawing on the Christian romances of King Arthur and Alexander the...