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Yiddish Translation of the Bible
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This manuscript page of Deuteronomy 1:1–7 is from a translation of the Hebrew Bible into Yiddish, from Italy. It is decorated with two storks and an ornate chapter heading with the opening word of the…

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Unknown

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Date:

16th Century

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Bible, Translation, Jewish languages, Yiddish

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Religion & Theology
Manuscript page of drawings of bird and plants on top and Yiddish text below.
Anshel of Kraków, Merkeves ha-mishne (The Second Chariot)
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Frontispiece of Anshel of Kraków’s Merkeves ha-mishne (The Second Chariot), a Hebrew-Yiddish dictionary of biblical words. The earliest Yiddish book printed in Poland, it was published in 1534 in…

Contributor:

Anshel of Kraków, Szmuel, Aszer, and Eljakim Helicz

Places:

Kraków, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)

Date:

1534

Subjects:

Print, Yiddish, Jewish languages, Translation

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Religion & Theology
Printed page of four shields depicting a castle, an eagle, a snake devouring a person, and a knight on horseback, surrounded by Hebrew words, sheaves, ribbons, and flowers.
A Great Announcement
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God be praised, it is now a year since we began printing our supplement to Ha-melits, the Kol mevaser, the world’s first newspaper in plain Yiddish. At first, many people ridiculed us, but time has…

Contributor:

Alexander Zederbaum

Places:

Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)

Date:

1863

Subjects:

Scholarship, Assimilation, Jewish languages, Yiddish

Categories:

History, Historical Writing, Literature, Journalism, Firsthand Accounts