Yudisher Theriak: An Early Modern Yiddish Defense of Judaism by Morris M. Faierstein Yiddish Learning This is where eleven-year-old Lisavet

This is where eleven-year-old Lisavet Levy finds herself trapped in 1938

along with substantive essays on the play’s literary and social context

bar and bat mitzvahs

his family ties brought him into networks of power

created a new language (Yiddish)

Yudisher Theriak: An Early Modern Yiddish Defense of Judaism by Morris M. Faierstein Yiddish Learning This is where eleven-year-old LisavetTranslated by Morris M. Faierstein The Yudisher Theriak [Jewish Theriac] by Zalman Zvi of Aufhausen, first published in Hanau, in 1615, was a response to an anti Jewish work titled Jdischer abgestreiffter Schlangenbalg [Jewish Shed Snakeskin], written by a Jewish convert to Christianity, Samuel Friedrich Brenz, and published in Nrnberg and Augsburg in 1614. Brenz's work was part of a genre of anti Jewish books and pamphlets written in German and