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

古意第绪语亚瑟王罗曼史《Widuwilt》是由一位犹太作家从前现代流传下来的最复杂、最具创造性和最原始的中古高地德语文学文本改编作品之一。这个中世纪晚期的文本是一个理想的对象，为大量的问题，从文献学，文化和史学的观点。尽管它的意义，文本还没有使访问到目前为止的语言学。没有一致的和现代的版本。研究这段罗曼史的学者——尤其是那些来自德国文学研究或历史研究的学者——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过程，也无法接触到希伯来字母的意第绪语文本。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本来纠正这种情况，该版本包含了来自传播的手稿的文本以及来自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，使该版本的用户能够了解它在自己的时代被写下来和收到的浪漫故事。将意第绪语文本额外的音译为拉丁字母将使它也适合不知道如何阅读希伯来字母的读者。此外，附录将包含现代德语的翻译，注释和专有名称和地点的索引。在项目完成和版本出版后，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语言学上可靠的版本。该项目旨在促进学科之间的交流，从而为开发新的研究模式创造可能性。通过呈现接近文本来源、音译和翻译的文本，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。

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.