{"product_id":"reading-across-cultures-translating-romances-fables-and-poetry-in-medieval-ashkenaz-hardcover","title":"Reading Across Cultures: Translating Romances, Fables, and Poetry in Medieval Ashkenaz - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCaroline Gruenbaum\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eReading across Cultures \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eexplores a body of innovative Jewish literary works from the Middle Ages.\u003c\/b\u003e In late twelfth- and thirteenth-century Ashkenaz--the Jewish communities in northern France, Germany, and England--Jewish authors translated several Old French and German stories into Hebrew. These stories are distinctly non-Jewish, drawing on the Christian romances of King Arthur and Alexander the Great and the classical fables of Aesop.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCaroline Gruenbaum argues that these translations--rather than adapting stories that reflected Jewish religious or cultural practice--represent a body of secular Hebrew literature in Ashkenaz and evidence of a shared literary culture between Jews and Christians in medieval Europe. Reading Hebrew animal fables, folktales, and chivalric romance, Gruenbaum describes an intellectual climate that allowed the literati of medieval Ashkenaz to read across cultures. In these translations, produced by medieval Jews for entertainment and for wisdom, Gruenbaum finds a new literary awakening in Ashkenaz.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCaroline Gruenbaum is Assistant Director of Digital Content at the Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization and the coeditor of \u003ci\u003eMedieval and Early Modern Jewish Romance\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 198\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 15, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43340660310105,"sku":"9781501782411","price":87.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0736\/6465\/9545\/files\/hpRUP_kL_i9781501782411.webp?v=1779444986","url":"https:\/\/warrenssanctuaryofthemind.myshopify.com\/de\/products\/reading-across-cultures-translating-romances-fables-and-poetry-in-medieval-ashkenaz-hardcover","provider":"Warren's sanctuary of the mind","version":"1.0","type":"link"}