Table of Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents XI
3. Preface XIII
4. Introduction XVII
5. Part I. History of Parody in Jewish Literature
6. I. The Beginnings of Parody in Jewish Literature 1
7. II. Parody in Provence and in Italy in the 14th. Century 15
8. III. The Decline of Parody From the Middle of the 14th. Century to the Middle of the 17th. 29
9. IV. The Revival of Parody from the Middle of the 17th. Century to the Close of the 18th. 40
10. V. Parody from the Beginning of the 19th. Century to the Present Day 59
11. Part II. Studies in Jewish Parody
12. I. The Massekheth Purim, Sepher Habakbuk Ha- Nabhi and Megillath Setharim 115
13. II. Provençal Parodies of the 14th. and 15 th. Centuries 145
14. III. The Verses Against Gamblers Ascribed to Ibn Ezra and the Parody of Leon de Modena 148
15. IV. Parody of a Letter of Credentials 151
16. V. The Haggadah of Jonah Rapa 153
17. VI. The Sedher Pesah Wehilkhatho 167
18. VII. The Massekheth Purim of the Seventeenth Century 172
19. VIII. Liturgic Parodies of the 17th. Century 187
20. IX. The Burlesque Testaments of Polido and Colorni 195
21. X. Earliest Yiddish Parodies 199
22. XI. The Massekheth Derekh Ere, of Isaac Luzzatto 203
23. XII. The Laws for Creditor and Debtor of Zachariah Pugliese 204
24. XIII. The Satire for Purim of Judah Loeb Bensew 206
25. XIV. Descriptive Bibliography of the Parodies from the Beginning of the 19th. Century to the Present Day 209
26. Additions to the Bibliography 262
27. Additions and Corrections 264
28. Indexes 267