Ma'ass book

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1602 first edition, Basel. Printed by Konrad Waldkirch .

The Ma'assebuch , actually Ajn schojn massebuch ( Yiddish מעשׂה־בוךfrom Hebrew ma'asse = story) is a collection of orally transmitted Yiddish stories, sagas, legends and allegories. They are based primarily on stories from the Midrashim and the Talmud and are in the tradition of the Askenazi Jews in Western Europe.

Wonderful deeds of biblical figures, rabbis and tzaddikim are described, as well as fairytale stories from the Orient and Occident.

It was first printed in Basel in 1602 by Konrad Waldkirch. Numerous reprints followed, which met with widespread interest. An edition in German was published in Giessen in 1612. The Amsterdam edition (1701) systematized the narratives and added new ones. The Frankfurt (1703) and Rödelheimer editions (1753) are characterized by the addition of cabalistic episodes. By 1870, over 20 editions had appeared. The first English- language edition, translated from Yiddish , by the linguist and former Sephardic Chief Rabbi of England, Moses Gaster , appeared in 1934.

The book was aimed at both scholars and women.

The book made an important contribution to establishing Yiddish as a literary language.

expenditure

Family tree of the Prague printer family Bak from Moritz Steinschneider (Ed.): Catalogus Librorum Hebraeorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana. iussu curatorum digessit et notis instruxit M. Steinschneider. Friedländer, Berlin 1852-1860
  • Isaak Jüdels : Ayn shin Ma'ase-Bukh , Jüdels, Wilhermsdorf sa, approx. 1673 (Freimann: 1673–1677, Steinschneider 1670–1680) digitized version of the University Library Erlangen-Nuremberg (according to Meitlis 1933 does not differ in any way from Prague 1665; Isaak Jüdels comes from the Prague printer family of the Gersonids.)
  • Jonathan b. Jaacob (ed.): New Ma'asse book. Sabbatai Bass , Dyhernfurth 1697 (different from the editions 1706 and 1709)
  • Ayn shen mayśe-bukh: come here liben manen un 'frouen un' tut the schėn maeśe̲-book to look with threeʼ hundred un 'etlichė maʻeśim brought to each other ... Ascher Anschel ben Elieser , Amsterdam 1701, download of the digitized copy for a fee of the Rostock University Library (with bibliographic proof.)
  • May book: wo arinn fil wunderlichi šini maiśes oiz dem zohar un andri kabole sefer gitzogn zainn ... with 354 andri maiśes zich kon ermaien ... oiz dem talmud ... , Wust , Frankfurt am Main 5463 (= 1702/03), Digitized version of the Johann Christian Senckenberg University Library Frankfurt am Main
  • Isak Gersoni : Mayse-bukh Wilhermsdorf sa (mentioned in Steinschneider 1848 as a different edition to 1703, since other publishers probably also have a different edition to around 1673; for relationship see Wilhermsdorf around 1673)
  • 1703 Wilhermsdorf (mentioned by Steinschneider in 1848 and Meitlis in 1933)
  • 1703 Frankfurt am Main (mentioned by Steinschneider in 1848, according to Meitlis 1933 extended edition)
  • Ma'assebuch (Hebrew title see fig.). 354 Sagas and legends from Talm. And Midr. etc. collected by Ascher Ansel b. Leiser , Sabbatai Bass , Dyhernfurth 1706
    Ma'assebuch Dyhernfurth 1706
  • A šin maiśe book: komṭ her libn mann un froien un ṭuṭ doś šin maiśe book to šoien; with 300 un eṭlichi maiśes bai agndr gbrachṭ ... ir libi laiṭ di do zain lib hober fun ṭaiṭš leienn ... Gottschalk, Frankfurt (Oder) 5469 [= 1708/09], digitized version of the university library Johann Christian Senckenberg Frankfurt am Main , Meitlis 1933 names a Phöbus B. Elias as a publisher .
  • Ma'assebuch (Hebrew title see fig.). Sabbatai Bass , Dyhernfurth 1709
Ma'assebuch Dyhernfurth 1709
  • Ayn shen mayśe-bukh: come here liben manen un 'frouen un' tut the schėn maeśe̲-book to look with threeʼ hundred un 'etlichė maʻeśim brought to each other ... Gerson Wiener , Berlin 1709. After Meitlis 1933 a reprint of the Amsterdam editions 1701 and Frankfurt / Oder 1708/09 with the same title. Gerson Wiener was a printer in Frankfurt / Oder and Berlin.
  • All kinds of stories. Maasse book, book of sagas and legends from the Talmud and Midrash together with folk tales in the Jewish-German language. Amsterdam 1723 (German title based on the translation by Pappenheim 1929) (according to Steinschneider 1848 contains a "Gerson's travel description", presumably referring to the publisher Iask Gersoni of the Wilhermsdorf sa edition)
  • Maase book, in which many wonderfully beautiful Masim (ie story) ... , Simson Hanau, Homburg 1727 (title after Gosche 1861)
  • 1753 Rödelheim by Jona ben Josche Gamburg at Karl Reich Digitized version of the Rödelheim edition 1752/53
  • NN. (Name in Hebrew letters see fig.): Nürnberg, 1763 (according to Meitlis 1933 extended edition and reprint from Frankfurt 1703 or Rödelheim 1753)
Editor of the Nuremberg Ma'assebuch 1763
  • Bertha Pappenheim (ed.): All kinds of stories. Maasse book. Book of sagas and legends from Talmud and Midrash along with folk tales in Jewish-German. Edited by Bertha Pappenheim from the edition of the Ma'ase book Amsterdam 1723. With a foreword by Ismar Elbogen . J. Kauffmann, Frankfurt a. M. 1929 (unaltered reprint: Hofenberg, 2014 ISBN 3843032602 ) full text online at Zeno.org
  • Eleasar Fawir (also Elieser) (Ed.): Ma'assebuch Żółkiew (= Schowkwa) 1802 (mentioned by Meitlis 1933)
  • Vilnius 1837 (mentioned by Meitlis in 1933)
  • Warsaw 1845 (mentioned by Meitlis in 1933)
  • Rhimed story . (Hebrew title, see illustration) Lemberg 1851 (Meitlis 1933: probably a reprint by Zolkiew 1802; this is a first volume - the second is announced in the book but has probably not appeared; the editor does not refer to one in the foreword known edition from 1705.)
    Ma'assebuch Lemberg 1851
  • Moses Gaster (Ed.): Ma'aseh book: book of Jewish tales and legends. The Jewish publication Society of America, Philadelphia, 1934. (Facsimile re-edition 1981 ISBN 0827601891 ), based on the Amsterdam 1723 edition
  • Ludwig Strauss (Hrsg.): Story book from the Jewish-German Maaßebuch / selected. u. transfer by Ludwig Strauss. Schocken, Berlin 1934, (Vol. 18 of the Schocken Verlag library )
  • Ulf Diederichs (ed.): The Ma'assebuch: Old Yiddish narrative. in Hochdt. transferred, commented and ed. by Ulf Diederichs. German Taschenbuch-Verl., Munich 2003, ISBN 3-423-13143-8 (2nd, improved edition 2004 ISBN 3-423-13143-8 ), based on the Amsterdam 1723 edition

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Moritz Steinschneider: About the folk literature of the Jews. In: Archive for the History of Literature Volume 2, BG Teubner, Leipzig 1872 p. 20 Digitized version of the university library of the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
  2. ^ Zeev Gries: Bak Family in the YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe
  3. ^ Elisabeth Singer-Brehm: The Prague May Book of 1665 . In: Yiddistik-Mitteilungen. Yiddish studies in German-speaking countries . Issue 55/56 (2016), pp. 1–12.
  4. ↑ Elisabeth Singer-Brehm: Addendum to the article “The Prague May Book of 1665” (JM 55/56) . In: Yiddistik-Mitteilungen. Yiddish studies in German-speaking countries . Issue 57/58 (2017), pp. 27–29.
  5. ↑ Marcus Brann: History and annals of the Dyhernfurther printing company. 2. Continuation. In: Monthly for the history and science of Judaism, vol. (1896), no. 12 (September 1896), p. 563 Digitized version of the Johann Christian Senckenberg University Library in Frankfurt am Main
  6. ↑ Marcus Brann: History and annals of the Dyhernfurther printing company. 2. Continuation. In: Monthly for the history and science of Judaism, vol. (1896), no. 12 (September 1896), p. 570 Digitized version of the Johann Christian Senckenberg University Library, Frankfurt am Main
  7. ↑ Jakob Meitlis: The Ma'assebuch. Its origin and history of the sources. At the same time an introduction to the old Yiddish Agada. With a foreword by Moses Gaster, PH. D., London, Rubin Mass bookstore, Berlin 1933. (Reprinted by Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim et al. 1987, ISBN 3-487-07833-3 ) p. 36
  8. ↑ Marcus Brann: History and annals of the Dyhernfurther printing company. 2. Continuation. In: Monthly for the history and science of Judaism, vol. (1896), no. 12 (September 1896), p. 570 Digitized version of the Johann Christian Senckenberg University Library, Frankfurt am Main
  9. ↑ Jakob Meitlis: The Ma'assebuch. Its origin and history of the sources. At the same time an introduction to the old Yiddish Agada. With a foreword by Moses Gaster, PH. D., London, Rubin Mass bookstore, Berlin 1933. (Reprinted by Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim et al. 1987, ISBN 3-487-07833-3 ) p. 37
  10. ↑ Jacob Jacobson: Jewish weddings in Berlin 1759 to 1813. With additions for the years 1723-1759, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1968 p. 528 f. Full text on Google Books