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Producing Redemption in Amsterdam
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Yiddish was the basic Ashkenazi vernacular in the early modern period. The vast majority of the population was not educated and Yiddish books were printed in or
Modern Yiddish Verse
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Ze’enah U-Re’enah
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This book is the first scholarly English translation of the Ze’enah U-Re’enah, a Jewish classic originally published in the beginning of the seventeenth cen