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A New Portrait of Early Seventeenth-century Polish Jewry in an Unknown Eastern-Yiddish Remedy Book.

This article presents an unknown Old-Eastern-Yiddish remedy-book (refue-bukh) with the Hebrew title Seyfer derekh ets ha-khayim, printed in 1613 in Poland. The only known copy was rediscovered in the Austrian National Library in Vienna some 10 years ago. The text is one of the earliest Eastern-Yiddi...

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Published in:European Judaism Vol. 42; no. 2; pp. 62 - 80
Main Author: Geller, Ewa
Format: Article
Published: Berghahn Books Autumn2009
Subjects:
Poland
Jews
Linguistics
Yiddish literature
Jewish literature
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