Tze’enah Ure’enah.

YA’AKOV BEN YITZCHAK OF JANOW.

Zekel ben Aaron

Sulzbach

1799

Yiddish printed in wayber-taytsch type. Woodcut illustrations within the text.

Vinograd, Sulzbach 481.

The most renowned Yiddish work of homiletical prose and particularly beloved among Jewish women over centuries. The Tze’enah Ure’enah is a miscellany of tales, Midrashim and exegetical comment woven around a Yiddish rendering and paraphrasing of the Pentateuch, Haphtaroth and Megiloth. Written in a tender, flowing style, the numerous editions have resulted in the text of the Tze’enah Ure’enah becoming a laboratory in examining the development of the Yiddish language over time.