Di bin (The Bee)

1906

The humorous weekly Yiddish Di bin (The Bee) was published in Warsaw between March and August 1906 by Shmuel Yankev Yatskan and Eleazar David Finkel. It included contributions from the Yiddish and Hebrew authors Isaiah Nisan ha-Kohen Goldberg (Yaknehoz, 1858–1927) and Avraham Leyb Yakubovitch (1882–1964), among others. The journal published news, feuilletons, and sketches about different aspects of Jewish European life, including politics and Jewish literature.

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The Quarrel between Hebrew and Yiddish

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Hebrew:Woe be to me, in my old age,That it should have to come to this:That I stand in judgment hereWith a shameless servant girlAnd her vulgar band of friends.No one knows me anymore!Yiddish:Oh…