Parody in Jewish Literature / / Israel Davidson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Davidson, Israel,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1907]; ©1907
• Year of Publication: 1907
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Follows the development of the parody in Jewish literature from its rudiments in the Talmudic literature through its various ramifications down to its extended use.

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• Part I. History of Parody in Jewish Literature
• I. The Beginnings of Parody in Jewish Literature
• II. Parody in Provence and in Italy in the 14th. Century
• III. The Decline of Parody From the Middle of the 14th. Century to the Middle of the 17th.
• IV. The Revival of Parody from the Middle of the 17th. Century to the Close of the 18th.
• V. Parody from the Beginning of the 19th. Century to the Present Day
• Part II. Studies in Jewish Parody
• I. The Massekheth Purim, Sepher Habakbuk Ha- Nabhi and Megillath Setharim
• II. Provençal Parodies of the 14th. and 15 th. Centuries
• III. The Verses Against Gamblers Ascribed to Ibn Ezra and the Parody of Leon de Modena
• IV. Parody of a Letter of Credentials
• V. The Haggadah of Jonah Rapa
• VI. The Sedher Pesah Wehilkhatho
• VII. The Massekheth Purim of the Seventeenth Century
• VIII. Liturgic Parodies of the 17th. Century
• IX. The Burlesque Testaments of Polido and Colorni
• X. Earliest Yiddish Parodies
• XI. The Massekheth Derekh Ere, of Isaac Luzzatto
• XII. The Laws for Creditor and Debtor of Zachariah Pugliese
• XIII. The Satire for Purim of Judah Loeb Bensew
• XIV. Descriptive Bibliography of the Parodies from the Beginning of the 19th. Century to the Present Day
• Additions to the Bibliography
• Additions and Corrections
• Indexes