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God, blessed be He, knew very well that the people of Israel would be scattered among the nations and that most of them would not be able to understand the holy tongue [Hebrew]. Therefore our sages…
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Ḥayim Druker
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1711
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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…
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Anshel of Kraków, Szmuel, Aszer, and Eljakim Helicz
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Kraków, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)
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1534
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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…
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Royzl bas Joseph Levi
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Kraków, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1586