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!”: 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 –…
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,…
Photo of the day: Silver circumcision knife, Italy (ca. 1620). Hebrew inscription: “My covenant was with him for life…” Genesis 17.11; Deuteronomy 30.12; Genesis 17.12.
Collection of Yeshiva University Museum
The Max Stern Collection