The Old Yiddish 'Widuwilt'. Edition, Transliteration, Translation, and Commentary

古意第绪语“Widuwilt”。

• 批准号: 408797665
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Astrid Lembke
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Lehrstuhl für germanistische Mediävistik
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2017-12-31 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/408797665?language=en
• 关键词: Old; Yiddish; Widuwilt; Edition; Transliteration

The Old Yiddish Arthurian Romance 'Widuwilt' is one of the most complex, creative, and original adaptations of a Middle High German literary hypotext by a Jewish author that have been transmitted from pre-modern times. This late medieval text is an ideal object for a great number of questions from a philological, cultural, and historiographical point of view. Despite its significance, the text has not been made accessible philologically so far. There is not consistent and modern edition. Scholars working with this romance - especially if they come from German Literary Studies or History - must still use out-dated transliterations of one or two textual sources without being able to survey the complete transmission and without having access to the Yiddish text in Hebrew letters. The project aims to rectify this situation by producing a new edition of the late medieval/early modern romance which contains the text from the transmitted manuscripts as well as the text from the earliest printed edition. The project will create a dependable text on the basis of current and up-to-date research that will give the edition's users access to the romance as it was written down and received in its own time. The additional transliteration of the Yiddish text into the Latin alphabet will make it suitable also for readers who do not know how to read Hebrew letters. The appendix, moreover, will contain a translation into Modern German, a commentary, and an index of proper names and places. After the project has been completed and the edition has been published, scholars from Yiddish Studies and Jewish Studies, but also from German Literary Studies, History, and Translation Studies will for the first time be able to use a philologically reliable edition. The project aims to further the exchange between the disciplines and thereby to create possibilities to develop new modes of research. By presenting a text that is close to the textual sources, a transliteration, and a translation, the project intends to make its object available for interdisciplinary research and a whole range of socio-cultural questions.

古老的意第绪亚瑟王传奇《威杜威尔特》是犹太作家改编的最复杂、最有创意、最具原创性的一部中高德语文学作品之一，它是从前现代时代流传下来的。从语言学、文化学和史学的角度来看，这本中世纪晚期的文献是回答大量问题的理想对象。尽管这本书意义重大，但到目前为止，它还没有从语言学上提供给人们。没有一致的、现代的版本。研究这段浪漫故事的学者--特别是如果他们来自德国文学研究或历史--仍然必须使用一两个文本来源的过时音译，而无法调查完整的传播情况，也无法接触到希伯来语的意第绪语文本。该项目旨在通过制作中世纪晚期/现代早期浪漫小说的新版来纠正这一情况，其中包括传播手稿的文本以及最早印刷版本的文本。该项目将在当前和最新研究的基础上创建一个可靠的文本，让版本的用户能够接触到浪漫故事，因为它是在自己的时代被记录和接收的。将意第绪语文本音译成拉丁字母，也将使其适用于不知道如何阅读希伯来语字母的读者。此外，附录还将包含现代德语的翻译、评论以及专有名称和地名的索引。在该项目完成和版本出版后，来自意第绪语研究和犹太研究的学者，以及德国文学研究、历史和翻译研究的学者，将首次能够使用在语言学上可靠的版本。该项目旨在促进各学科之间的交流，从而为开发新的研究模式创造可能性。通过提供接近文本来源的文本、音译和翻译，该项目旨在使其对象可用于跨学科研究和一系列社会文化问题。