Politics of Interpretation

Jerold C. Frakes is Assistant Professor of German at the University of Southern California.

• Preface 1. Alterity, Ideologies, and Old Yiddish 2. The Names of Old Yiddish 3. Alterity, Accessibility, Audience, Alphabet: On Editing Old Yiddish Texts 4. The New Paradigm(s) Appendix: Notes on Transliteration/Transcription Systems Notes Bibliography Author-Title Index General Index Scholar Index

"This is a work of high scholarship and lucidity. It will become a standard in its field and will be quoted in every work on Yiddish and in many on Jewish history and literature for decades to come." — Emanuel S. Goldsmith, Queens College, CUNY"The book is important as an analytical illumination of a disgraceful chapter in the history of philology and as an account of some manifestations of hidden antisemitism." — Franz Bauml, UCLA