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Yiddish Tales

Country Folk
Feivke was a wild little villager, about seven years old, w...

As The Years Roll On
Rosalie laid down the cloth with which she had been dusting...

An Original Strike
I was invited to a wedding. Not a wedding at which ladie...

Sholom-alechem
Pen name of Shalom Rabinovitz; born, 1859, in Pereyaslav, G...

David Frischmann
Born, 1863, in Lodz, Russian Poland, of a family of merchan...

The Two Brothers
It is three months since Yainkele and Berele--two brothers,...

The Kaddish
From behind the curtain came low moans, and low words of en...

Judah Steinberg
Born, 1863, in Lipkany, Bessarabia; died, 1907, in Odessa; ...

An Easy Fast
That which Doctor Tanner failed to accomplish, was effectua...

Hirsh David Naumberg
Born, 1876, in Msczczonow, Government of Warsaw, Russian Po...

Mordecai Spektor
Born, 1859, in Uman, Government of Kieff, Little Russia; educ...

At The Matzes
It was quite early in the morning, when Sossye, the scribe'...

Tashrak
Pen name of Israel Joseph Zevin; born, 1872, in Gori-Gorki,...

Poverty
I was living in Mezkez at the time, and Seinwill Bookbinder...

The Clever Rabbi
A FOLK TALE The power of man's imagination, said my Grandmot...

Yitzchok-yossel Broitgeber
At the time I am speaking of, the above was about forty yea...

Gymnasiye
A man's worst enemy, I tell you, will never do him the harm...

The Rav And The Rav's Son
The Sabbath midday meal is over, and the Saken Rav passes h...

The Misfortune Or How The Rav Of Pumpian Tried To Solve A Social Problem
Pumpian is a little town in Lithuania, a Jewish town. It li...

Fishel The Teacher
Twice a year, as sure as the clock, on the first day of Nis...



Abraham Raisin






Category: ABRAHAM RAISIN

Born, 1876, in Kaidanov, Government of Minsk (Lithuania), White Russia;
traditional Jewish education; self-taught in Russian language; teacher
at fifteen, first in Kaidanov, then in Minsk; first poem published in
Perez's Juedische Bibliothek, in 1891; served in the army, in Kovno, for
four years; went to Warsaw in 1900, and to New York in 1911; Yiddish
lyric poet and novelist; occasionally writes Hebrew; contributor to
Spektor's Hausfreund, New York Abendpost, and New York Arbeiterzeitung;
co-editor of Das zwanzigste Jahrhundert; in 1903, published and edited,
in Cracow, Das juedische Wort, first to urge the claim of Yiddish as the
national Jewish language; publisher and editor, since 1911, of Dos neie
Land, in New York; collected works (poems and tales), 4 vols., Warsaw,
1908-1912.





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