The Jewish Pope

In this examination of the myth of the Jewish Pope in four Yiddish literary texts dating from between 1602 and 1943, Sherman explores to what extent Yiddish language and literature derive from the dominant values of mainstream European culture.

Joseph Sherman

1: Why?; 2: The Master-Narrative and its Ambiguities; 3: The Mayse-bukh and the Debut of the Myth; 4: Ayzik-Meir Dik, Reformer through Fiction; 5: Y. Y. Trunk and the Myth after the Holocaust; 6: Radical Subversion with Isaac Bashevis Singer; 7: The Case of Israel Zangwill; 8: A Kind of Closure