Frakes Jerold C. Early Yiddish Texts 1100-1750: With Introduction and Commentary

Oxford University Press, 2004. — 879 p. — ISBN: 0-19-926614-X.Several years ago when I found out that the published by the Argentine YIVO was still in print as a complete set, I immediately bought the hundred volumes. When I happened to mention the purchase to a colleague, whose field is modern Jewish intellectual history, she casually asked me if that was everything. It took a moment for me to realize that she was asking whether those hundred slender octavo volumes comprised the entire corpus of Yiddish literature. My brief explanation clarified the issue (and embarrassed both of us).