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Paris Un Viena
by Chone Shmeruk, Elijah Levita, Erika Timm
Hardcover, 340 Pages, Published 1996 by Israel Academy Of Sciences And Humanities
ISBN-13: 978-965-208-125-4, ISBN: 965-208-125-6

"Paris un Viena is an adaptation into rhymed Yiddish stanzas of a popular chivalric romance well known in Italy in the sixteenth century. The author makes virtuoso use of the lively Yiddish spoken in Italy at the time, while expunging the most obviously Christian motifs in the story. Based on a complete copy of the book printed in Verona in 1594, Shmeruk's edition is accompanied by all the captioned illustrations as they appear in the or ..."

Yiddish Biblical Plays, 1697-1750
by Chone Shmeruk
Hardcover, 706 Pages, Published 1979 by Israel Academy Of Sciences And Humanities
ISBN-13: 978-965-208-006-6, ISBN: 965-208-006-3

"This collection contains all the Yiddish plays that have come down to us from when Yiddish drama first emerged until the mid-eighteenth century: A Nice Purim Play; Ahasuerus Play; The Play of Mordecai and Esther; Ahasuerus Play Like an Opera; Acta Esther and Ahasuerus; The Selling of Joseph; David and Goliath the Philistine; and The Play of Moses our Teacher"

Sholem-Aleikhem
Motl Peyse Dem Khazns. Motl Peyse, The Cantors Son
by Sholom Aleichem, Chone Shmeruk, 48658 Sholem-Aleikhem, .. Judaicum Rasr!
Hardcover, 376 Pages, Published 1997 by The Hebrew University Magnes Press
ISBN-13: 978-965-223-955-6, ISBN: 965-223-955-0

"The Cantor's Son, Sholem Aleikhem's masterpiece, is here offered to the reader in a new, complete and revised edition of the original text, presented in Modern Standardized Yiddish Ortorgraphy. The text is accompanied by an "Afterword" by Prof. Chone Shmeruk treating the evolution of the narrative, and by a detailed textual apparatus. In the Yiddish-Yiddish glossary are listed words and expressions that are not to be found in current di ..."