Elia Levita Bachur's Bovo-Buch is a sixteenth-century Yiddish verse romance which relates the adventures of the hero Bovo d'Antona. The poet spins an episodic tale of friendship and betrayal, of disguise and discovery, of knightly battles, of journeys to exotic lands, of love lost and regained, of a slain father avenged, and of a hero restored to his patrimony. This romance, first composed in 1507, soon became one of the most popular works of Jewish secular literature and remained so over the next five hundred years. Professor Smith's prose translation makes this remarkable little book accessible to the English-speaking public for the first time.
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Jerry C. Smith, Professor Emeritus of Modern Languages at the College of William and Mary, lives with his wife, five cats, two llamas, and a Sheltie in New Kent County, Virginia.
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Unexpected and fascinating,
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This review is from: Elia Levita Bachur's Bovo-Buch: A Translation of the Old Yiddish Edition of 1541 with Introduction and Notes (Paperback)
This book is definitely not what you have in mind when you think 'yiddish literature'. The adventures of this jewish Don Quixote have more in common with Michael Chabon's 'Gentlemen of the road' than with Bashevis Singer's books.
Introduction and notes are as interesting as the text itself which is quite short. Knowledgeable and fun reading.
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