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Mendele Mocher Sforim
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Mendele Mocher Sforim was a Belarusian Jewish author and one of the founders of modern Yiddish and Hebrew literature.
Mendele Mocher Sforim
Mendele Mocher Sforim
The Odessa literary group in 1916; from left to right: Yehoshua Ravnitzky (1859-1944), Shloyme Ansky, Mendele, Hayim N. Bialik, Simon Frug.
The Odessa literary group in 1916; from left to right: Yehoshua Ravnitzky (1859-1944), Shloyme Ansky, Mendele, Hayim N. Bialik, Simon Frug.
Yiddish literature
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Yiddish literature encompasses all those belles-lettres written in Yiddish, the language of Ashkenazic Jewry which is related to Middle High German. The history of Yiddish, with its roots in central E
Mendele Mocher Sforim
…name: Sholem Yankev Abramovich; January 2, 1836 – December 8 [O.S. 27 November] 1917) was a Belarusian Jewish author and one of the founders of modern Yiddish and Hebrew literature. Mendele was born to a poor Lithuanian Jewish family in Kapyl, Minsk Governorate, Russian Empire. His father, Chaim Moyshe Broyde…
First edition of the Bovo-Bukh of 1507–1508, printed in 1541, the first non-religious Yiddish book. As the most popular chivalric romance in Yiddish,
First edition of the Bovo-Bukh of 1507–1508, printed in 1541, the first non-religious Yiddish book. As the most popular chivalric romance in Yiddish, its name later passed into popular phrase as "bubbe meise"-"grandmother's tale"
Non-Orthodox Jewish philosopher Martin Buber (1878–1965) was the first to publicise Hasidism to the wider non-Jewish world. His influential focus on i
Non-Orthodox Jewish philosopher Martin Buber (1878–1965) was the first to publicise Hasidism to the wider non-Jewish world. His influential focus on its stories was criticised by Gershom Scholem for leaving aside its scholarship and adapting it to his Neo-Hasidic existentialism
Nachman of Breslov saw sparks of holiness mixed up in the tales of the world. Lurianic Kabbalah describes the purpose of Creation as the redemption of
Nachman of Breslov saw sparks of holiness mixed up in the tales of the world. Lurianic Kabbalah describes the purpose of Creation as the redemption of sparks of the Shechinah. In Hasidism each person is guided to elevate their particular share. This is compared to the tale of a princess who agrees to be freed from imprisonment only by a particular prince.
2009 Ukrainian stamp of Sholem Aleichem (1859–1916). Together with Mendele Mocher Sforim and I. L. Peretz, the three "classic" Yiddish writers, he hel
2009 Ukrainian stamp of Sholem Aleichem (1859–1916). Together with Mendele Mocher Sforim and I. L. Peretz, the three "classic" Yiddish writers, he helped found the latter 19th-century cultural and artistic Yiddish Renaissance movement of Eastern Europe.