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Gimpel Beynish, Yiddish cartoon from NYC 100 years ago

Gimpel Beynish, Yiddish cartoon from NYC 100 years ago

Read from right to left!

Today’s cartoon in Yiddish first appeared 1916 in דיא וואַרהייט. This newspaper and others are made available online by the
National Library of Israel on the website Historical Jewish Press – עיתונות יהודית היסטורית. Microfilmed and print copies of newspapers and other material are

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Fascists Get the Boot

“Fascists Get the Boot!”: A Hebrew cartoon from 1943!

Karikatūrah
Mipaām
קָרִיקָטוּרָה מִפַּעַם

Today’s cartoon in Hebrew first appeared on August 6, 1943 in the
newspaper Al Hamishmar, accompanying an article about the overthrow of
Mussolini. This newspaper and others are made available online by the National
Library of Israel on the website Historical Jewish Press –…

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Tracing the Past: Deciphering Handwriting in Yiddish and Hebrew

By J.D. Arden, Reference Services Librarian, Genealogy Specialist, Center for Jewish History

Here at the
Center for Jewish History in the Ackman and Ziff Family
Genealogy Institute
, researchers in genealogy often
discover or bring in old postcards, letters, manuscripts or vital statistics
records. These old documents are notoriously difficult to read! Some are in
Yiddish,…