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The Brief Travels of Benjamin the Third
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“Hey, hey, out of my way!” shouted a driver from the seat of his coach as he nearly ran into two women standing in the middle of the busiest street in Glupsk, both carrying…

Contributor:

Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh (Mendele Mokher Sforim)

Places:

Žitómir, Russian Empire (Zhytomyr, Ukraine)

Date:

1878

Subjects:

Humor, Rural life, Women, Community, Yiddish

Categories:

History, Historical Writing, Literature, Humor & Satire
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…

Contributor:

Di bin (The Bee)

Places:

Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

ca. 1906

Subjects:

Language and linguistics, Jewish languages, Satire, Yiddish

Categories:

Political Culture, Journalism, Humor & Satire