The facsimiles of Yiddish documents and title pages reproduced in this volume, their captions, and the accompanying introductory essays are a succinct introduction to Yiddish culture. They cover religion, education and daily life, politics, Yiddish literature, history, and scholarship, Yiddish theater, and the Yiddish press, as reflected in materials printed over the last 400 years.

Marion Aptroot is Professor of Yiddish Culture, Language, and Literature at Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf.

Jeremy Dauber is Assistant Professor at Columbia University.

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