Yiddish

"It is not until the Middle Ages that Jewish epic is preserved in texts long enough to be appreciated and evaluated, although even there, many of the relevant texts must have been lost, and much of the non-Jewish epic source material was adapted into Hebrew as prose narrative, not epic."

— Early Yiddish Epic translated by Jerold C. Frakes

• Early Yiddish Epic translated by Jerold C. Frakes

  • Midrashic Epic

    1. Abraham Our Father (Avrom ovinu)

    2. Joseph the Righteous (Yousef ha-tsadik)

    3. Book of Samuel (Seyfer Shmuel)

    4. The Binding of Isaac (Akeydas Yitskhok)

  • “Secular” Epic

    1. Duke Horant

    2. Vidvilt

    3. Bovo of Antona (Bovo d’Antona)

    4. Pariz and Viene (Pariz un Viene)