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		Likewise, Mendele's introductory essay, "Psikho" [Petikha], together with the 189 notes to "Peyrek Shire" in his "Tuv ta'am" compilation (which could as easily have been named "Notes to 'Peyrek Shire'), designed for the Hebrew-reading "talmid-khokhem" and the learned maskil, may be seen as organic to the composition as a whole.
		Mendele wanted to provide scientific notes for the learned, and stir the imagination and interest of the ordinary reader.
		Mendele's purpose was to shift the commentary to higher levels, merging his own deeply felt piety with his scientific interests.
	yiddish.haifa.ac.il /tmr/tmr05/tmr05002.htm (1780 words)

	Mendele Mocher Sforim - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mendele Mocher Sforim (also Sfarim, מענדעלע מוכר ספֿרים) (December 21, 1835 (O.S. January 2, 1836 (N.S. November 25 (O.S. December 8 (N.S.), "Mendele the bookseller," is the pseudonym of Sholem Yakov Abramovich, Jewish author and one of the founders of modern Yiddish and modern Hebrew literature.
		It is the story of a maskil—that is, a supporter of the Haskalah, like Mendele himself—who escapes a poor town, survives miserable to obtain a secular education much like Mendele's own, but is driven by the pogroms of the 1880s from his dreams of universal brotherhood to one of Jewish nationalism.
		Mendele, a mainly English-language newsletter about Yiddish language and culture, is named after Mendele Mocher Sforim.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mendele_Moykher_Sforim (716 words)

	Yiddish Background
		Born in Kapulye, in the province of Minsk, White Russia, Mendele, as he was affectionately called by his readers, was dubbed by Sholem Aleykhem the "grandfather" (zeyde) of modern Yiddish literature.
		Sholem Aleykhem was born Sholem Rabinovitsh in the town of Pereyeslav in the Ukraine (Poltava province) in 1859.
		Although Mendele was revered and Sholom Aleykhem much-loved--it was Peretz who was at the center, the spokesman for modern, secular, Yiddish-speaking Jewry.
	www.cwrl.utexas.edu /~bump/E388M/Jan/yidback.htm (566 words)

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		Subject: Mendele on "Yidishe parnoses" ['Jewish occupations'] -- A view from Israel In the past few years a goodly number of Israeli high-tech firms have moved from start-up status to that of international players and have subsequently been purchased for billions of dollars by some of the most powerful companies in the world.
		Here are some fine descriptions by Mendele of "yidishe parnoses," by which he means typical Jewish vocations, including many of those bound up with religious institutions and practice.
		Mendele's satire is born of revulsion, and yet he cannot help but love those whom he mocks.
	www2.trincoll.edu /~mendele/tmr/tmr05012.txt (2439 words)

	Shtetl: Joachim Neugroschel - THE GREAT WORKS OF JEWISH FANTASY AND OCCULT
		Mendele, the whole thing belongs to a friend of mine.
		Mendele, having had a sniff, a whiff, o f the essence of your Meat Tax, we would be most willing to release you from your oath.
		May your equine surrogate be reckoned in all due value as an equivalent of your having fulfilled your promise in all good faith and published an additional section to The Meat Tax, with all the particulars.
	www.ibiblio.org /yiddish/Book/Neugroschel2/jn-fantasy-mare.html (1102 words)

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		Mendele Moykher Sforim is the Columbus of the Yiddish language, and Yitskhok Leybush Peretz is its Napoleon.
		Mendele discovered Yiddish and Peretz conquered European worlds on its behalf.
		Mendele nationalized Yiddish; his first literary grandchild, Sholem Aleichem, wondrously popularized it, and Peretz humanized it.
	www.angelfire.com /il2/borochov/yiddish.html (2693 words)

	KtB - Canonizing Yiddish
		Reading the excerpt of Mendele’s “The Little Man” (1864-66), we can admire the artistry that established his position as the “grandfather” of Yiddish literature.
		This famous story, illustrating the trials of a Jew gone astray through ignorance and greed prior to his repentance before death, exhibits a sophisticated understanding of human psychology combined with an acute social critique.
		Instead, the anthology is a canonical selection of the giants of Yiddish literature -- Mendele, Y.L. Peretz, Sholom Alecheim -- along with brief biographies and summaries of their literary significance.
	www.killingthebuddha.com /critical_devotion/yiddishe_canon.htm (1178 words)

	EPYC \| Culture \| Language
		Modern Yiddish literature developed at a fast clip, a characteristic common to many "minor literatures." An example of a major literature is French or English; each developed over hundreds of years, with a critical mass of readers and writers that was one of the largest in Europe.
		Initially, the Haskalah had a very precise language program: its adherents believed that the vast majority of Ashkenazi Jews should speak Russian, the language of their country, learn Hebrew as the national language of culture, and to shed or forget Yiddish-since they saw it as superfluous and a language with "little cultural value".
		Capitalizing on the familiarity of a traditional peddler, Abramovitsh had Mendele introduce his stories of Enlightenment-stories that might otherwise have been spurned by most Ashkenazi Jews suspicious of Haskalah.
	epyc.yivo.org /content/12_3.php (744 words)

	Judaism 101: Yiddish Language and Culture
		The first of the great Yiddish writers of this period was Sholem Yankev Abramovitsch, known by the pen name Mendele Moykher Sforim (little Mendel, the bookseller).
		Mendele's works gave Yiddish a literary legitimacy and respectability that it was lacking before that time.
		Tales of Mendele the Book Peddler (Paperback): Two stories by the first great Yiddish writer, Mendele Moykher Sforim, including his masterpiece, Benjamin the Third, with a lengthy scholarly introduction discussing the author and the time and place where he lived and wrote.
	www.jewfaq.org /yiddish.htm (4739 words)

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		In this issue: Sholem-Yankev Abramovitsh, as it is known, in addition to creating his most famous teller, Mendele Moykher-Sforim, also experimented with another narrative figure, Yisrolik der Meshugener, best known for his role as narrator in _Di klyatshe_ (Vilna 1872).
		The animal dimension is deepened by the fact of Ambramovitsh's abiding interest in nature studies and his devotion to making nature understood in Hebrew.
		In the third volume of his _Seyfer toldot hateva_ (a translation of Herold Othmar Lenz's _Gemeinnuetsige Naturgeschichte_, Gotha 1834-9), Mendele gives an ample description of the marmot and his habits.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/academic/languages/yiddish/tmr/TMR01.025 (3935 words)

	The Jewish Don Quixote, by Leah Garrett
		She might be a brave breadwinner, but she was still a woman, and there was less in the head of the canniest female than in the little finger of the most doltish man (318-319).
		Mendele thus satirizes a system in which the role of men and women is strictly divided: women symbolizing reproductivity (earning a living, taking care of the family, giving birth to children), and men denoting total unreproductivity.
		For, in the end, it is Mendele, in the guise and voice of a ‘man of the people’, who manages to subvert all of Benjamin's fantastic claims.
	www.h-net.org /~cervantes/csa/articf97/garrett.htm (3673 words)

	Mendele Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		The founding father of modern Yiddish fiction, Abramovitsh created a rich tapestry of small-town Jewish life in the Russian Pale of Settlement with stories full of humor, heart, and homespun truths.
		Y Abramovitsh's famed epic novel explores the social upheaval of Russian Jews who are...
		by Mendele Mokher Sefarim, Isaac Leib Peretz, Sholem Aleichem, Leo Nadelmann
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Mendele (212 words)

	Yiddish Renaissance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Yiddish Renaissance was a cultural and artistic movement which began among Jews in Eastern Europe during the latter part of the 19th Century.
		Some of the leading founders of this movement were Mendele Moykher-Sforim (Mendele Mocher Seforim) (1836- 1917), I.L. Peretz (1852-1915), and Sholom Aleichem (1859-1916).
		According to historian Paul Kreingold, "Beginning in the Eighteenth century, followers of the great German- Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn undertook to spread his ideas to the majority of Europe's Jews, who lived in Eastern Europe and Russia, and who spoke the Germanic language Yiddish.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yiddish_Renaissance (260 words)

	Fidelio Article—Schiller Institute—I.L. Peretz, Father of the Yiddish Renaissance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Firstly, the Jews of Eastern Europe were the last national group in Europe to undergo a Renaissance; a Renaissance with Warsaw at its center and literature as its primary creation.
		Yiddish literature: the stories, poems, and plays of Mendele Moykher-Sforim (Mendele Mocher Seforim), I.L. Peretz, Sholom Aleichem, and others, is uniquely the literature of the Jewish Pale, but like all world-class literature, it speaks universally to all of humanity.
		In order to carry out this mission, the impoverishment of the Yiddish language as a conveyer of profound ideas had to be overcome, and a number of Jewish authors undertook the task of creating true literature in Yiddish, as a means of popular education.
	www.schillerinstitute.org /fid_02-06/032_yiddish.html (11247 words)

	Yiddish at Stanford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Yiddish literature developed on the borderlands between the sacred and the secular, the Jew and the Christian, art and politics, the Old World and the New.
		In this class, we read stories by some of the most brilliant Yiddish writers, including Mendele Moykher Sforim, Sholem Aleichem, I. Peretz, S. An-sky, Chaim Grade, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Esther Singer-Kreitman, Lamed Shapiro, and Sarah Hamer-Jacklyn.
		Each one, in his or her own way, tried to create fiction that answered the questions posed by life (without churning out propaganda) and each tried to imagine him or herself as a new, modern kind of Jew (without becoming indistinguishable from non-Jews).
	www.stanford.edu /group/hebrew/yiddish/classes/index.html (168 words)

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		The Mendele Review: Yiddish Literature and Language (A Companion to MENDELE) ______________________________________________________ Contents of Vol.
		The text of Mendele Moykher-Sforim's "Mayn letste nesie" will be made accessible in the near future.
		The Yiddish original and a Hebrew translation by Shalom Luria may be found in _Khulyot_ vol.
	shakti.trincoll.edu /~mendele/tmr/tmr08010.htm (6496 words)

	Bookshop-Literature
		Mendele Moykher-Sforim (1835-1917); edited by Marvin Zuckerman, Gerald Stillman, Marion Herbst (1932-).
		Tales of Mendele the Book Peddler : Fishke the Lame and Benjamin the Third (Yiddish Classics Series) (paperback) and (hardcover).
		Mendele Mokher Sforim (S.Y. Abramovitsh) (1835-1917); edited by Dan Miron and Ken Frieden; introduction by Dan Miron; translations by Ted Gorelick and Hillel Halkin.
	members.aol.com /msybooks/fiction.html (2109 words)

	JewishJournal.com
		The material that Katz compiles about Yiddish among the ultra-Orthodox, both past and present, can be found in no other book for the lay public, and only very rarely in the scholarly literature.
		Katz explains (with excitement just short of glee) that the year 1864, the same famous founding year in which Mendele Moykher Sforim began to publish the first “modern masterpiece of Yiddish prose,” saw a proclamation of the religious sanctity of Yiddish in the will of the founder of ultra-Orthodoxy, the Khasam-Soyfer.
		Moreover, in his ideological but invigorating conclusion, Katz brings us back to the present day, maintaining that all those interested in Yiddish language and literature must concern themselves with the ultra-Orthodox, mostly Chasidic population that will constitute the vast majority of future Yiddish speakers.
	www.jewishjournal.com /home/print.php?id=13509 (817 words)

	Violence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		While Ruth R. Wisse’s “Speaking of the Devil in Yiddish Literature” ultimately maintains the symposium’s defensive perspective that violence is an externally imposed “unbidden subject” for Jews, she has a stronger basis for her conclusion as she is treating Yiddishkeit literature.
		She considers the work of Mendele Moykher Sforim, Sholem Aleichem, Hayim Nahman Bialik, Y.L. Peretz and, most problematically for her, Lamed Shapiro.
		Most Yiddish writers, she observes, accept “the traditional view that violence was a manifestation of evil” (p.
	www.case.edu /artsci/rosenthal/reviews/violence.htm (1030 words)

	CMLT C300 1125 Fantasy, Realism, & Fiction: The First Century of Modern Yiddish Lit (1810-1914) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		This course aims to offer a detailed survey of some of the major trends of the first century of Modern Yiddish literature with emphasis on its historical and formal aspects.
		Yiddish works that will be read in English translation will include a selection of tales by Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav (1772-1810), short novels and stories by Yisroel Aksenfeld (1787-1866), Mendele Moykher Sforim (1836-1917), Sholom Aleichem (1859- 1916), Y.L. Peretz (1851-1915), and the famous drama Der Dybbuk by Sh.
		Discussion and analysis of these works will be devoted to their fundamental cultural and historical context, their role in rediscovering and shaping the aesthetics of a young modern literature, as well as the interplay between satire, 'ethnographism", realism, and symbolism.
	www.indiana.edu /~deanfac/blspr03/cmlt/cmlt_c300_1125.html (199 words)

	No Star Too Beautiful (Main Page)
		But there were also the fables of Moshe Vallikh and such wonder-filled folk tales as "The Princess and the Seven Geese." In the later periods, the stories reflect the varying currents of thought within the Jewish community as well as echoing the changes in Europe.
		Comic or tragic, Yiddish literature underwent a flowering of writers: Mendele Moykher-Sforim, Yitsik Leybesh Peretz, S. Ansky, Sholem Asch, Y.Y. and Isaac Bashevis Singer, and many others.
		Compiling and newly translating almost all the stories, Neugroschel has created a seamless effect rarely approached in a work filled with so many voices.
	www.wwnorton.com /catalog/fall04/032617.htm (449 words)

	National Yiddish Book Center - From Mendele to Maus
		Known almost universally by his pen name, Mendele Moykher Sforim, Abramovitch (1835-1917) is considered the founder of both modern Hebrew literature and (with the publication of The Little Man in 1864) of modern Yiddish writing, accomplishments that led Sholem Aleichem to nickname him der zayde, the grandfather.
		Fishke the Lame is a delicate story of love among outcasts which was later made into the most romantic of Yiddish-language films.
		This said, all his writings demonstrate a low-key approach that avoids rhetorical flourish while illuminating an important transition in Israeli literature.
	www.nationalyiddishbookcenter.com /story.php?n=10026 (8999 words)

	Table of Contents and Excerpt, Wolitz, The Hidden Isaac Bashevis Singer
		With Abraham Goldfadn and Esther-Rokhl Kaminska in the theater, Mendele Moykher Sforim, Y. Peretz, and Sholem Aleykhem in literature, Mark Antokolsky in sculpture, Maurycy Gottlieb and Marc Chagall in painting, and Ida Rubenstein in dance, a de facto Yiddish secular culture came into being, burgeoning and expressive.
		When the Yiddish Yitskhok Bashevis became the English I. Singer, he assumed the iconic stature of a living grandfather just as, sixty years earlier, Mendele Moykher Sforim had been ratcheted upward to this rank by the newly emergent writers Y. Peretz and Sholem Aleykhem.
		Earlier Yiddish writings rendered into English had presented the harsh satires of Mendele, the heartfelt but humorous folk characters of Sholem Aleykhem, and the bourgeois historical realism of Sholem Asch and Joseph Opatoshu, overlaid with a patina of nostalgia.
	www.utexas.edu /utpress/excerpts/exwolhid.html (5000 words)

	All About Jewish Theatre - Low Culture in the Purimshpil
		Such a description might well have transported the audience to the realm of the classical mode, which perceives the human body as harmonious and beautiful.
		[With signs of a beard and a short dirty dress, beneath which one can see big coarse boots], the description given for Vashti in Der Priziv by S.Y. Abramovitsh (Mendel Moykher Sforim) —Vashti’s reference to her “snow-white breasts” becomes an absurd parody, and renders the body even more grotesque.
		In their memoirs, contemporary spectators of purimshpil performances record the abrupt changes in atmosphere, from laughter to tears, and from pathos to low farce.
	www.jewish-theatre.com /visitor/article_display.aspx?articleID=1760 (5164 words)

	Amazon.com: Profile For S. Feldman: Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		If not for the arrangement of this music, Iglesias could have done that.
		Selected Works of Mendele Moykher-Sforim (Three Great Classic Writers of Modern Yiddish Literature, Vol 1)
		This book contains some great works by Abramovitsh, and is a pleasant way to discover him.
	www.amazon.com /gp/cdp/member-reviews/AREZFINYNZAV8 (230 words)

	Changing Times
		Reflect on the grand tradition of secular Yiddish literature represented by luminaries such as Mendele Moykher Sforim, Sholom Aleikhem, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Isaac Bavel and many others who sought to integrate Jewish historic experience into universal literary culture.
		Today, the supply of Yiddish authors and readers is expanding only among the decidedly unsecular communities of the Hasidic and Lithuanian Yeshiva world.
		Take a look around: contemporary Jewish culture is as fragmented and broken as it was 200 years ago, perhaps even more so; and no redemptive rebirth has emerged from the secular Jewish revolutions of the past two centuries.
	www.jewish-holiday.com /changingtimes.html (1041 words)

	Registrar's Office \| Fall 2006 Course Schedule \| German
		Focusing primarily, though not exclusively, on prose narratives, we will examine this literature in its aesthetic, historical, and cultural dimensions.
		All readings will be in English and will include such central figures as Reb Nakhman Breslover, Mendele Moykher-Sforim, Y.L. Peretz, Sholem Aleichem, I.B. Singer, and Avrom Sutzkever, among others.
		Prior knowledge of Jewish culture helpful, but not required; no knowledge of Yiddish required.
	www.jhu.edu /registrar/sched_crfall06/german.html (1623 words)

	Request for Registration of yi-hebr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		"Dos Mendele bakh : briv un oytobiografishe notitsen...
		/ fun Mendele Moykher Sforim ; artiklen un ophandlungen vegn Sh.
		Abramovitsh (Mendele Moykher Sforim) ; tsunoyfgeshtelt un geshribn fun Nakhman Maysil." New York : Ikuf, 1959.
	www.alvestrand.no /pipermail/ietf-languages/2002-November/000458.html (316 words)

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