These two collections of Yiddish letters date from the second half of the 17th century and are being published here in full for the first time. The opening five-letter collection was archived together with extensive information about three Jews from Hamburg-Altona, who had been arrested and investigated in Copenhagen in August 1666. The second collection consists of eighteen letters exchanged between Hamburg-Altona and Copenhagen in January 1678. They concern the family and business affairs of a range of people, among them some of Glikl Hamel’s relatives, business associates and acquaintances. Together, the two collections provide a wealth of illuminating new details about the economic, cultural, social, and family life of early modern Ashkenazi Jews in Northern Europe, and also shed light on the practice of Yiddish letter-writing at the time. The English section consists of an introduction followed by a synopsis of each letter, while the Hebrew section comprises a transcription of the original texts as well as their facsimile images.

You now have before you this volume which contains an assemblage of popular Yiddish humor: jokes both folksy and racy, proverbs and colloquial curses which originated in the hundreds of towns and cities of Eastern Europe up to the Second World War. In recent decades interest in Yiddish has been growing in Israel and in many other countries. It expresses itself as a longing, a nostalgia, for the language that was spoken in people's parents' home, and that they heard from their grandparents. This volume reveals some of the treasures of Yiddish humor to the many lovers of Yiddish around the world. This sampler does not specify the origin of the jokes it contains, because "An anecdote and a cat have no master, they belong to whoever manages to catch them." (N. Stutchkoff, p. 571, see Bibliography.) In order to select the approximately 400 jokes and sayings appearing in this book, the collector spent many months searching through anthologies, joke books, lexicons etc. The most important sources are listed in the Bibliography. In their world of poverty, pogroms, persecutions and evil decrees, the Jewish masses of Eastern Europe were in dire need of spiritual support and psychological defence. They found this support in humor, which relieves tension and makes life more bearable. This book is organized by theme into 51 sections, each section exhibiting a particular aspect or feature of Jewish life in the cities, towns and townlets of Eastern Europe.

This dictionary contains mainly idioms, which are combinations of words of an idiomatic nature and have an adopted, metaphorical meaning. Some are commonly used expressions, and are not necessarily idiomatic or metaphorical. These second kind of expressions which are termed "collocations" in linguistic parlance have been included only in cases where they do not appear in existing dictionaries of Yiddish. This dictionary offers four options for the user to find the required expressions: 1. By alphabetic order; 2. By alphabetized lists of the equivalent expressions in Hebrew, English and Russian; 3. By a list of the nouns and numerals that appear in the Yiddish expressions; 4. By a subject index. The alphabetized lists of equivalent expressions in Hebrew, English and Russian enable the dictionary to be used in two directions – Yiddish to Other Languages and Other Languages of Yiddish. The expressions in the dictionary are of three types: 1. Expressions which reflect the everyday life of the Jews of Eastern Europe (food, occupations, etc.): 2. Expressions associated with Jewish customs and religious life: 3. Loan translations (literal translations of expressions from other languages):

This periodical has been permanently discontinued. This is the last volume. This issue is focused on the productive collaboration of East European and German Jews who have been known to have a very long standing and documented hostile relationship.

Davka 's 7th issue is dedicated to the "Red Flag"

Davka 's 6th issue is dedicated to the "Yiddishe Mame" the Jewish Mother

Davka 's 5th issue is dedicated to New York Yiddish, a success story which is usually overlooked by Israeli History Books. It covers a selection of the New York Yiddish Golden Age elements: the Yiddi Theatre, which became a kind of Modern Temple (Edna Nahshon); the Rise of "Fiddler on the Roof" (Dan Almagor). The New Davka issue also includes a photographic tour following the trail of the Jewish Past in the Lower East Side (Nahum Gershon), a Motl Peyse Dem Khazns Comics and more. Davka does not limit itself to the Historical tale but also describes the Yiddish Situation in New York today. It tells of the activity of a very young organization "Yugntruf " and tells of a friendship between two women an ex-religious and an orthodox and even includes a play about female love in one of the Yiddish reading circles in the East Village.

Davka is a Hebrew-language magazine that explores the culture of the Jews of Eastern Europe. The subject of the Second issue is Childhood.

The first issue of Davka is devoted to journeys, and offers a wide array of subject matter and styles, from David Assaf's scholarly writing on traveling near and far, to Ruvik Rosenthal's fascinating observations on the Yiddish component in spoken Hebrew, and Yirmi Pinkus' comic strip "Malopolska" ("Little Poland")and includes an interview with Chava Alberstein.

The Yiddish proverbs in this book have accumulated for hundreds years. They originate from the Bible, the Talmud, the Eastern European and German folklore, but some were coined by Yiddish speakers themselves. Parallel proverbs and literal translations in Hebrew, English and Russian accompany the Yiddish proverbs. The dictionary also contains alphabetical indexes of the Hebrew, English and Russian proverbs and references to the original Yiddish proverbs, thus producing a combined two-way dictionary. Eastern European Jewish folklore is distinguished by an unusual degree of self-criticism, which is reflected in the proverbs. A large proportion of Yiddish proverbs are humorous, perspicacious, and sophisticated and some make opposite statements about the same matter.

Here Ruth Levin presents to the public the best creations of her father Leibu Levin, Czernowitz born actor and composer and the last of the great Yiddish Troubadours and also called the Jewish Schubert. This anthology includes most of Levin's lifetime work and its variety paints a musical portrait of the Jewish epos in the 20th Century.