{"id":2323,"date":"2012-04-22T20:29:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-22T20:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjhblog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2012\/04\/22\/selections-from-yingl-tsingl-khvat-by-mani-leib\/"},"modified":"2018-06-27T16:52:19","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T16:52:19","slug":"selections-from-yingl-tsingl-khvat-by-mani-leib","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2012\/04\/22\/selections-from-yingl-tsingl-khvat-by-mani-leib\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-2323 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2012\/04\/22\/selections-from-yingl-tsingl-khvat-by-mani-leib\/attachment\/2324\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tumblr_m2we9igp7P1r3qmd1o1_r1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2012\/04\/22\/selections-from-yingl-tsingl-khvat-by-mani-leib\/attachment\/2325\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tumblr_m2we9igp7P1r3qmd1o2_r1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><em>Selections from <\/em>Yingl tsingl khvat<em> by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mani_Leib\" target=\"_blank\">Mani Leib<\/a>, illustrated by\u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/El_Lissitzky\" target=\"_blank\">El Lissitzky<\/a><\/em><em>.<br \/><\/em>Yingl tsingl khvat<em>\u00a0images from YIVO microfilm printout 00004383.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>From the<em> Norton Jewish American Literature Anthology<\/em>: \u201cThe most famous of [Mani Leib\u2019s] ballads was <em>Yingl tsingl khvat<\/em>, 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 and bring beauty\u2014a snowstorm\u2014to the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Translation by Jeffrey Shandler (of the text in the images):<\/p>\n<p>I have a story here to tell<br \/>To all my children \u2013 you as well.<br \/>Hush, dear friends, be very still \u2013<br \/>Hear my story, if you will.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>Jews are running everywhere,<br \/>Selling here and buying there,<br \/>Faces shining as they say,<br \/>\u201cWhat a splendid market day!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(Source number: AJHS PJ5129.B71513)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>About <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mani_Leib\" target=\"_blank\">Mani Leib<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>From <em>Encyclopedia Judaica<\/em>: \u201cLargely eschewing social concerns, he crafted formally unified poems that affirmed a belief in the ability of art to compensate for human suffering. His \u2018sound poems\u2019 drew renewed attention to the Yiddish language through their skillful use of alliteration and repetition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Submitted by David P. Rosenberg, Center for Jewish History.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Selections from Yingl tsingl khvat by Mani Leib, illustrated by\u00a0El Lissitzky.Yingl tsingl khvat\u00a0images from YIVO microfilm printout 00004383. From the Norton Jewish American Literature Anthology: \u201cThe most famous of [Mani Leib\u2019s] 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&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[185,1204,1203,962,31],"class_list":["post-2323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-blog-post","tag-american-jewish-historical-society-collections","tag-el-lissitzky","tag-mani-leib","tag-national-poetry-month","tag-yivo-institute-for-jewish-research-collections","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2326,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323\/revisions\/2326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}