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Document Details : Title: The Role of Yiddish in Early Dutch-Jewish Haskalah Author(s): FUKS-MANSFELD, R.G. Journal: Studia Rosenthaliana Volume: 36 Date: 2002-2003 Pages: 147-155 DOI: 10.2143/SR.36.0.504919 Abstract : During the seventeenth cetury vast migrations of the Askhenazi community took place. Many settled down in Amsterdam, where they quickly felt home and were influenced not only by Dutch culture, but also by the language creating a new Yiddish odiom. Amsterdam became the leading centre for the production of Hebrew and Yiddish books and provided the whole Jewish Diaspora with religious and secular literature until the mid-eighteenth century. The Frankfort family played in this publisher's world a major role. One of their major accomplishments is the Yiddish translation of Menorat ha-ma'or of Isaac Aboab, as it was thus opened for common people. |
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