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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

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Advertisements, Reportage
Page of printed Yiddish text, with one line of Russian text at the bottom of the page.
Behistun Trilingual Inscription and Aramaic Papyrus
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Behistun Trilingual Inscription, Persia. This inscription of Darius I (reigned 522–486 BCE) illustrates the polyglot character of the Persian Empire. Versions in the Old Persian, Elamite, and Akkadian…

Places:

Kermanshah, Iran
Elephantine, Egypt (Jazīrat Aswān, Egypt)

Date:

Persian Period, Late 6th–Early 5th Century BCE

Subjects:

Language and linguistics, Writing, Jewish languages

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Language & Linguistics
Relief with figures with hands bound standing next to larger figure along wall with relief of winged figure and Persian, Elamite, and Akkadian inscriptions.