La littérature juive en langue yiddish (XVIe-XVIIe siècles). Crise religieuse, culture vernaculaire et propagation de la foi

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Jewish Literature in the Yiddish Language (XVIth-XVIIth centuries) : Religious Crisis, vernacular Culture and propagation of the Faith. J. Baumgarten. The circulation within Jewish society of the tradition of Modern Times has essentially been studied using printed texts which circulated among the intelligentsia. The question of the propagation of the Jewish faith among the "ignorant" remains less known. Yiddish literature, distributed from the XVIth century onward within the Central and Eastern European communities remains a privileged vantage point from which to understand how the essence of Judaïsm was transmitted to the semiliterate. The Yiddish book will be used as a palliative to Hebrew culture and as a tool for the propagation of the basic tenets of the holy tradition. Ancient Yiddish literature allows us to pinpoint numerous traces of practices of oral transmission and to understand the dynamic relationship between orality and scripture particular to Jewish culture.