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It’s Not Their Business

It’s “Not Their Business!”

Karikatūrah
Mipaām
קָרִיקָטוּרָה מִפַּעַם

Today’s cartoon in Yiddish appeared 1905 in דיא ווארהייט.

This newspaper in particular 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 available…

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Susie Knaknisl

Susie Knaknisl: a translated
Yiddish Cartoon from 101 years ago

Karikatūrah
Mipaām
קָרִיקָטוּרָה מִפַּעַם

Today’s cartoon in Yiddish appeared 1916 in דיא ווארהייט. This newspaper in particular 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…

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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,…