Selections from Yingl tsingl khvat by Mani Leib, illustrated by El Lissitzky.Yingl tsingl khvat images from YIVO microfilm printout 00004383. From the Norton Jewish American Literature Anthology: “The most famous of [Mani Leib’s] ballads was Yingl tsingl khvat, a narrative about a boy who, stuck in the shtetl mud, persuades a nobleman to give him the magic ring and flying horse that allow him to escape…
