Davide Artico
Studia Judaica, Nr 2 (50), 2022, s. 309 - 333
https://doi.org/10.4467/24500100STJ.22.013.17183A Polish Translation of an Excerpt from the Twentieth-Century Adaptation of Bovo-Bukh by Moshe Knapheys: From Venetian Buovo d’Antona to Bovo-Bukh in the Musterwerk Series
The paper has a double purpose. It contains a short excerpt from a Polish t anslation of the latest known adaptation of Bovo-Bukh authored by Moshe Knapheys and published by YIVO in Buenos Aires in 1962. It also contains a basic exegesis of the chivalry poem, starting with its earliest incunables in a vernacular with strong Venetian traits, printed in the 1480s, through its first adaptation in Yiddish-Taytsh by Elia Levita, originally written in Padua in 1507, but published in Isny only in 1541. The Polish translation from modern Yiddish according to the 1962 version also contains a critical apparatus in which the early Venetian text (a 1487 incunable), and Levita’s Yiddish-Taytsh adaptation of the latter, according to both the 1 07 manuscript and the 1541 print, are taken into consideration for comparison.