A New Letter-Writing Guide

Hirsh Leon D’or

1893

A new letter-writing guide containing many examples of various kinds of important letters written with great diligence, great sensitivity, and in the best style; these letters also include very nice anecdotes and fables, with the most beautiful customs, wonderful to read and write; names of both sexes (male and female). Also (Hebrew) words that are…

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Hirsh Leon D’or

19th Century

Hirsh Leon D’or was raised in Vilna; his father, Avraham (Leyb) Leon D’or (1793–1846), who studied at the secular Jewish Polish-language school adjoined to Vilna University, was a maskil and author. Hirsh followed in his father’s footsteps as a polyglot author, writing brivnshteler—a genre of Yiddish instructional and anthological books for letter writing—and multilingual textbooks for Yiddish readers to learn German and French. Hirsh’s brivnshteler was printed a number of times between 1865 and 1893.

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