Article
Literary Innovation in Yiddish Sea Travel Narratives
Poetics Today
(2014)
Abstract
Sea travel was an influential literary genre in Europe in the eighteenth century, and this genre subsequently influenced enlightened and Hasidic Jewish circles. As a result, the genre of sea narratives assumed a significant role in the rise of modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature. This article considers the place of Yiddish sea narratives--adapted from Campe's Reisebeschreibungen and in Hasidic writings--in the early nineteenth century. Both enlightened and Hasidic authors shaped modern Yiddish and Hebrew prose.
Keywords
- Yiddish,
- Hebrew,
- Travel,
- Translation
Disciplines
Publication Date
Fall 2014
Citation Information
Ken Frieden. "Literary Innovation in Yiddish Sea Travel Narratives" Poetics Today Vol. 35 (2014) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/ken_frieden/43/