Keywords
Renaissance
Jewish female literature
Meneket Rywka
How to Cite
Abstract
The article presents the circumstances surrounding the composition of the first book by a Jewish female author. The book - written in Yiddish in sixteenth-century Tykocin (in Podlasie), a small town in Eastern Poland - is entitled Meneket Rywka (Nanny), and its author, Rywka bat Meir (Rywka, Meir’s daughter), conceived it as a morality guide. A meticulous analysis of the text has revealed that Rywka was exceptionally well-educated and must have been moving in intellectual circles. The article discusses the main problems considered in the book, as well as the history of its critical reception, and features some fragments of this prose translated into Polish.
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