By Aya Elyada
Elyada’s research of quite a lot of philological and theological works, in addition to textbooks, dictionaries, ethnographical writings, and translations, demonstrates that Christian Yiddishism had implications past its merely linguistic and philological dimensions. certainly, Christian texts on Yiddish display not just the ways that Christians perceived and outlined Jews and Judaism, but in addition, in a contrasting vein, how they seen their very own language, faith, and culture.
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The second reason for the enhanced importance of linguistic adaptation in the case before us is that this mission was directed at Jews. The far-reaching adaptation of missionaries to the rituals and customs of the peoples they wished to convert, as was the case for example with the Jesuit mission in China and India during the seventeenth century,6 was unthinkable in mission among the Jews. Whereas some pagan customs and rituals could be considered theologically neutral, at least to the extent that they allowed the missionaries to reconcile them with Christian practice, Jewish customs and rituals were overtly rejected by Christian dogma.
64 Missionary impulses were not absent either from other Christian considerations for learning Yiddish, such as the ambitions to read Yiddish literature and to expose Jewish secrets. In these cases, however, other arguments in favor of learning Yiddish were focused on, adding new dimensions to the role of Yiddish in ChristianJewish relations in early modern Germany. Two “From the Jews’ own books” Yiddish Literature, Christian Readers Mastering Yiddish was also recommended to the Christian Studiosis Theologiae to enable them to read Ashkenazi Jewish literature in this language.
22 The missionary activities of Callenberg’s institute concentrated on three fields. The first was the publication and distribution of missionary literature in Oriental languages, especially in Yiddish. Thanks to a vast network of helpers and sympathizers stretching across and beyond the continent, missionary publications were taken to the remotest places and almost immediately distributed among the Jews, usually free of charge or at a very small price. The second field of activity was the training of well informed and highly qualified missionaries to work among the Jews.