TY - JOUR
T1 - Shabbethei Bass and the construction–and deconstruction–of a Jewish library
AU - Idelson-Shein, Iris
N1 - Funding Information:
This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 801861). I would like to thank Yakov Z. Mayer, Rebekka Voß, Jonathan Schabbi, and Eldad Zion for their valuable advice during the writing of this article.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - This essay examines two works produced in 1680 by the Jewish author and bibliographer, Shabbethai Meshorer Bass: his famous Hebrew bibliography, Sifte yeshenim, and his enigmatic Yiddish travel guide, Masekhet derekh erets. In both works, Bass relied heavily on previous sources, either in Latin or in German, which remained, for the most part, unacknowledged. The article offers a comparative reading of the two works, focusing particularly on the understudied Masekhet derekh erets, to exemplify the porous and deeply collaborative nature of early modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature.
AB - This essay examines two works produced in 1680 by the Jewish author and bibliographer, Shabbethai Meshorer Bass: his famous Hebrew bibliography, Sifte yeshenim, and his enigmatic Yiddish travel guide, Masekhet derekh erets. In both works, Bass relied heavily on previous sources, either in Latin or in German, which remained, for the most part, unacknowledged. The article offers a comparative reading of the two works, focusing particularly on the understudied Masekhet derekh erets, to exemplify the porous and deeply collaborative nature of early modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature.
KW - Old Yiddish
KW - bibliography
KW - early modern literature
KW - translation
KW - travel literature
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85103609350&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/1462169X.2021.1886718
DO - 10.1080/1462169X.2021.1886718
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85103609350
SN - 1462-169X
VL - 22
SP - 1
EP - 16
JO - Jewish Culture and History
JF - Jewish Culture and History
IS - 1
ER -