Explore: Yiddish Epigrams

Sha'ashu'im, by Joseph Ibn Zabara (12th century), a story combining folktales, epigrams, and passages of philosophy and science. Ben ha-Melekh ve-ha-Nazir, by

Joshua ben Isaac Bank (Yiddish: יהושע בן יצחק בּאַנק) was a Hebrew writer and rabbi at Tulchin, Polodia, born in Satanov in the first half of the nineteenth

and epigrams. Aaron Jonathanson was the great-great-grandson of Jonathan Eybeschutz. His son, Jonas Jonathanson, was a contributor to the Yiddish periodical

Rabbi Nachman miBreslev, Reb Nachman of Bratslav, Reb Nachman Breslover (Yiddish: רבי נחמן ברעסלאווער Rebe Nakhmen Breslover), and Nachman from Uman (April

Mani Leib (Mani Leyb, Yiddish: מאַני לייב; born Mani Leib Brahinsky, Russian: Мани Лейб Брагинский; 20 December 1883, Nezhin, Russian Empire – 4 October

author, and poet. He is best known for his Hebrew- and Yiddish-language satires, poems, and epigrams. Born in Białystok, Rosenzweig received his education

lively exchange about literature before the beginning of the war with the Yiddish writer David Sfar, his wife's brother-in-law and the only survivor of the

became very clear, according to Liuba, at the time of the execution of the Yiddish writers [known as the Night of the Murdered Poets]. Then also it was a

Lexicon American Yiddish Poetry, Stanford University, 2007, pp. 46-7 The Congress for Jewish Culture Lexicon A. V. Zornytskyi, "The Yiddish sonnets of M.

included the Kaganovich Yiddish Theater, the Yiddish publishing house, the Yiddish newspaper Birobidzhan, the library of Yiddish and Hebrew books, and the