The Early Modern Yiddish Bible: From the Mirkevet Ha-mishneh to Blitz and Witzenhausen by Morris M. Faierstein Holocaust History "Every page of this book—marvelously

"Every page of this book—marvelously translated by Zackary Sholem Berger—trembles with smoldering vitality

the weakening of the family bond

who offers him a chance to save his family

A descriptive and flavorful language

or as an arrogant and distant collection of government officials and nobility

The Early Modern Yiddish Bible: From the Mirkevet Ha-mishneh to Blitz and Witzenhausen by Morris M. Faierstein Holocaust History "Every page of this book—marvelouslyThe translation of the Bible into the vernacular is a venerable Jewish tradition, more than two thousand years old. Ashkenazi Jewish culture was a latecomer to the vernacular Bible, and it was only in the sixteenth century that the Yiddish Bible made its appearance in print. Almost one hundred years ago, Wilhelm Staerk and Albert Leitzmann's survey of Early Modern Yiddish Bible translations were the first attempt to define this genre of Early Modern