Ze'enah u-Re'enah
Ze'enah ure'enah is an old Yiddish paraphrase of the Torah , the five megillot (the books of Hohes Lied , Ruth , Lamentations , Kohelet , Ester ) and the Haftarot ( section from the Neviim belonging to the weekly section of the reading of the Torah) (Prophets)), written by Jakob ben Isaak Aschkenasi from Janów near Lublin . The work, named after Shir ha-Shirim ( Song of Songs ) 3:11: Ze'enah ure'enah benot Zijjon ("... come out and see, you daughters of Zion ..."), draws its narratives not only from the various Midrashim , but also from comments like the "Toledot Jitzchaq".
After at least three missing prints from Cracow and Lublin , the oldest edition of this Yiddish book of edification was published in Basel in 1622 . The work was very popular with European Jews, especially women. It has appeared in over 200 editions in Europe, the United States and Israel . From the 18th century onwards, the editions were revised both in terms of language and content.
More works by Jakob ben Isaak Aschkenasi:
- Sefer ha-Maggid
- Shoresh Ja'akov
- Meliz Joscher
expenditure
The bibliography Bet Eked Sepharim by Ch. B. Friedberg gives 73 editions. Including:
translation
- Zennah u-Reenah. Women bible. Edited from the Jewish-German by Bertha Pappenheim . Bereschith . First book of Moses. Jewish Women's Association, Frankfurt 1930
literature
- Norman C. Gore: Tzeenah u-reenah - a Jewish commentary on the Book of Exodus. Vantage Press, New York 1965.
- Simon Neuberg: Ze'ena u-Re'ena. In: Dan Diner (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture (EJGK). Volume 6: Ta-Z. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2015, ISBN 978-3-476-02506-7 , pp. 500–503.
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Remarks
- ↑ Zenne run , in: Meyers Encyclopedic Lexicon , 9th edition, 1971-79, vol 25, p 668;. Zenne renne , in: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie , 19th edition, 1986–1994, Vol. 24, p. 500.