The German Political Broadsheet 1600-1700. (review)
Slavic on the latter, which is still far from being exhaustively investigated. Timm’s erudite, groundbreaking philological work may be called truly encyclopedic (in the positive sense of the word). Her ideas and arguments are an important contribution to the actual discussions among historians of Yiddish. To scholars working on Old and Middle Yiddish texts, her study will serve as an indispensable reference book. ROLAND GRUSCHKA Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf