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The History of Borsszem Janko (Johnny Peppercorn)
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Cartoon in the satirical weekly Borsszem Jankó, depicting the first generation of Borsszem Janko’s writers and illustrators at Kávéforrás (the Coffee Fountain) on Fürdő Street in Budapest, Hungary.

Date:

1887

Subjects:

Humor, Writing, Cities, Class, Artists, Journalism

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Journalism
Print of men sitting around a table in room with central column.
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Der fraynd (The Friend) was the first Yiddish daily in the Russian Empire. Founded by Shaul Ginzburg in St. Petersburg in 1903, Der fraynd was for several years the only Yiddish daily permitted in the…

Contributor:

Shaul Ginsburg

Date:

1903

Subjects:

Yiddish, Writing, Jewish identity, Jewish languages, Advertisements, Journalism

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Advertisements, Reportage
Page of printed Yiddish text, with one line of Russian text at the bottom of the page.
The Essence of Baseball Explained for Non-Sportsmen
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Illustration of a baseball diamond in a short primer on the game of baseball published in the summer of 1909 in the Yiddish-daily Forverts (Forward). Some of the words in the picture are…

Date:

1909

Subjects:

Sports, Migration, Assimilation, Jewish languages, Yiddish, Journalism

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Reportage, Journalism
Print of circle with diamond inside, and Yiddish text across the top.