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A Yiddish Cabinet of Curiosities: Gliles Erets Yisroel and the Early Modern Afterlife of the Medieval Hebrew Travel Book

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: This is a first comprehensive analysis of "Gliles Eretz Yisroel", a popular early modern Yiddish travel narrative which, contrary to its author's statements, is a composite of earlier works. It demonstrates what happens on a literary level when a travel book is not the product of travel but of a pre-existing library, and suggests that the resulting reading experience was also a new and different one. It also shows how a work can be both very conservative in its use of sources, and very unruly in how it uses them.

Source: Knowledge Commons (Lakehead University)

DOI: 10.17613/zbp12-8dc02

Author: Sharon-Pinto, Ossnat

Institution: Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Language: English

Topic: Travel Writing and Literature

Subfield: History

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W7092576131

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