The Reformed Hasid

Max Jungmann

1905

Page with German text across top and bottom, with two nearly identical figures in center, with the one on the left bearded and in prayer garment and hat, and the one on the right with moustache and suit.

“Before and After the Reform.” Cartoon from the Yiddish satiric publication Der Schlemiel: Illustriertes jüdisches Blatt für Humor und Satire, lampooning the transformation of a Hasidic Jew into a Reformed Jew.

Credits

Der Schlemiel: Illustriertes jüdisches Blatt für Humor und Satire, June 1, 1905. Courtesy Leo Baeck Institute, New York.

Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 7.

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Creator Bio

Max Jungmann

1875–1970

Born in Schildberg, Germany (today Ostrzeszów, Poland) to an assimilated family, Max Jungmann studied medicine in Freiburg and Berlin, and was active in a Zionist student group. In 1903, following a meeting with Theodore Herzl and the Zionist leader Sammy Gronemann, Jungmann started Der Schlemihl, an illustrated German Zionist satirical monthly (1903–1906), which also employed the leading German Zionist writers Dr. Theodor Zlocisti and Leo Winz. Jungmann was active in the nationally minded and postassimilationist wing of the German Jewish literary world, editing the short-lived Die jüdische Moderne. Jungmann was also an essayist and poet. He immigrated to Palestine in the late 1930s.

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