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This page illustrating the blowing of the shofar on Rosh Hashanah is from a Yiddish book of customs from Italy. By the sixteenth century, Yiddish-speaking Ashkenazic Jews were the largest groups of…
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1500
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The Mayse-bukh (Book of Stories), a collection of more than two hundred and fifty stories in Yiddish, was popular among Jews in Western and Eastern Europe from the sixteenth to the nineteenth…
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Unknown
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Rovere, Republic of Venice (Roverè Veronese, Italy)
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1585–1590
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God, blessed be He, knew very well that the people of Israel would be scattered among the nations and that most of them would not be able to understand the holy tongue [Hebrew]. Therefore our sages…
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Ḥayim Druker
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1711
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The Yiddish-language socialist weekly Der arbayter fraynd (The Worker’s Friend) was founded in London in 1885 by Morris Winchevsky (1856–1932), a political activist and poet originally from Russian…
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Unknown
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London, United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland (London, United Kingdom)
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1891
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This is a program for an October 26, 1898, production of Mirele Efros at the Thalia Theatre, located at 46–48 Bowery on New York City’s Lower East Side.
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Jacob Gordin
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
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1898
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Advertisement for an October 20, 1918, Yiddish production of Komishe nakht, a French comedy by José Sanz Pérez, adapted into Yiddish by M. Oyerbakh.
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Salon Casa Suiza
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
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1912
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The actor, comedian, and playwright Donat (David) Herrnfeld grew up in the small town of Raab (Győr) in Hungary; his family later moved to Vienna. Donat and his siblings performed and toured early on…
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German Empire (Germany, Germany)
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Early 20th Century
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The cover of this Yiddish-language program is for a performance of Di tsvey Kuni Lemels (Two Kuni Lemels) at Goldfaden’s Yiddish Theater. The image features two dancing men in Hasidic attire. The play…
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Abraham Goldfaden
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1887
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This manuscript page of Deuteronomy 1:1–7 is from a translation of the Hebrew Bible into Yiddish, from Italy. It is decorated with two storks and an ornate chapter heading with the opening word of the…
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16th Century
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The Russian Revolution initially lifted restrictions on Jewish publishing, sparking a burst of creativity among Jewish writers and artists. Jewish theater companies experimented with modernist…
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Robert Falk
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ca. 1924