The Early Yiddish Romance: New Research with a Roundtable Discussion on the Problem of Authorship: Minstrels (Shpilmener) or Scribes?
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Special Session
Organizer Name
Jennifer G. Wollock
Organizer Affiliation
Texas A&M Univ.
Presider Name
Jeffrey L. Wollock
Presider Affiliation
Solidarity Foundation
Paper Title 1
New Research on Early Yiddish Romances: Against the Shpilman
Presenter 1 Name
Jerold C. Frakes
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Univ. at Buffalo
Paper Title 2
Elye Bokher as a Badkhan: The Case for the Shpilman
Presenter 2 Name
Jennifer G. Wollock
Paper Title 3
Discussant
Presenter 3 Name
Leonard Callaway
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Independent Scholar
Start Date
14-5-2016 10:00 AM
Session Location
Valley I Ackley 105
Description
New research on early Yiddish romances, with a debate on their authorship: contrasting Germanistic and Yiddishist-English chivalric romance perspectives, with respondents expert in Jewish history, traditional Jewish secular music, and present-day musical entrepreneurship. Were any actual itinerant Jewish minstrels (shpilmener) involved, or were early Yiddish narratives the work of scholars? That is the question. Jennifer Goodman Wollock
The Early Yiddish Romance: New Research with a Roundtable Discussion on the Problem of Authorship: Minstrels (Shpilmener) or Scribes?
Valley I Ackley 105
New research on early Yiddish romances, with a debate on their authorship: contrasting Germanistic and Yiddishist-English chivalric romance perspectives, with respondents expert in Jewish history, traditional Jewish secular music, and present-day musical entrepreneurship. Were any actual itinerant Jewish minstrels (shpilmener) involved, or were early Yiddish narratives the work of scholars? That is the question. Jennifer Goodman Wollock