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Introspectivism
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With this collection, we intend to launch a particular trend in Yiddish poetry which has recently emerged in the works of a group of Yiddish poets. We have chosen to call it the Introspective…

Contributor:

Jacob Glatstein, A. Leyeles, Nokhum Borukh Minkov

Places:

New York City, United States of America

Date:

1919

Subjects:

Yiddish, Poetry, Poets, Jewish languages, Language & Linguistics, Politics

Categories:

Political Culture, Language & Linguistics
Yiddish Folk Songs
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In this volume I have made a selection of religious and holiday songs. Actually, they constitute a single group, since in reality it is hard to draw a sharp dividing line between the first group and…

Contributor:

Noah Pryłucki

Places:

Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1910–1911

Subjects:

Poetry, Folklore, Jewish identity, Yiddish, Jewish languages, Music, Performing arts

Categories:

Performing Arts, Popular Poetry, Music
My First Encounter with Peretz
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[The writings of the nineteenth-century maskilic writers] Perets Smolenskin and Yitsḥok Erter opened cracks in the faith of Hasidic young men [like Asch himself]. Their life of [Talmud] study without…

Contributor:

Sholem Asch

Places:

New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)

Date:

1915

Subjects:

Artists, Poetry, Jewish languages, Jewish identity, Modernism

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Memoirs & diaries
With God’s Help
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With God’s help I set myself the aim, And with God’s aid I hope to achieve the same. The holy book of Psalms in Taytsh [Yiddish] to make known, Hoping that all shall praise and extol God, blessed be…

Contributor:

Royzl bas Joseph Levi

Places:

Kraków, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)

Date:

1586

Subjects:

Print, Poetry, Jewish languages, Yiddish

Categories:

Poetry, Liturgical poetry
All of the Books That Have Arrived at the Editor’s Desk
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    Future [Tsukunft], first compilation. Published by Tsukunft, St. Petersburg (1913). Ben-Ami, Big Fayvl and Little Fayvl (a short story). Published by Far undzere kinder…

Contributor:

Boris Kletzkin

Places:

Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Date:

1913

Subjects:

Writing, Yiddish, Jewish languages, Poetry, Journalism

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Reportage, Lists & catalogues