Jewish Money in Everyday Life, Cultural History and Folklore: A Lexicological Study

Isaac Rivkind

1959

Introduction

The author is not among those who adhere to the doctrine that “money talks.” Knowledge talks, conscience talks, but money is merely counted—more by some, less by others. If the author counts “Jewish money,” it is because it is money that recounts. By counting we can recount Jewish life. It is the story of a rich past, of a pious world…

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Creator Bio

Isaac Rivkind

1895–1968

Born in Łódź, Isaac Rivkind grew up amid affluence and learning, a background he parlayed into a long career as a journalist, researcher, and—for thirty-six years—librarian at the Jewish Theological Seminary. Rivkind was a passionate and lifelong Zionist as well as a scholar. He belonged to the Hebrew PEN Club of New York, and his academic interests roamed widely, from bar mitzvah celebrations to Yiddish typography to the poet Bialik to the history of Jews and gambling.

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