Di Yudishe agodes: folkstimlikhe ertsehlungen, zagn, legenden, mesholim, aforizmen, un shprikhyerter geklibn fun Talmud un Medroshim nokhʼn Hebreishn Sefer ha-agadah. Ereshter Band [VOLUME 1]

him nokhʼn Hebreishn Sefer ha-agadah

Published by Printer: Moriah [1919?], Odessa

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In vowelized Yiddish. xii, 180 pages. 85 x 60 mm. Loose in the binding. WorldCat: Libraries worldwide that own item: 3. Ex library with de-accession stamp. As the rubber stamp impression indicates, this copy was once Judah Joffe's. Judah Achilles Joffe (April 19, 1873 Yekaterinoslav, Russian Empire (now Dnipro, Ukraine) - September 16, 1966 USA) was a Yiddish philologist. He immigrated to the United States in 1891. Among Joffe's noted works is his 1949 critical edition of the Bovo-Bukh, the most popular chivalric romance in the Yiddish language. He was also a co-editor, with Yudel Mark, of the Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language (Groyser ?er?erbukh fun der Yidisher shprakh). He researched the Slavic component in Yiddish, published musicological work about Russian composers, translated Yiddish, English, and French, was a co-founder of the American branch of YIVO, and active in its linguistics section together with other scholars of Yiddish including Max Weinreich and Shmuel Niger. Seller Inventory # 013500

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Title: Di Yudishe agodes: folkstimlikhe ...

Publisher: Printer: Moriah [1919?], Odessa

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

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