Six memoir chapters in Yiddish.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Language:

Yiddish

Subjects (All):

Hasidim--England--London--20th century--Biography.

Hasidim.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Kestenbaum & Company, Auction 80 (March 28, 2019) lot 141.

Physical Description:

6 leaves : paper ; 21 x 16 cm.

Production:

[London?], [between 1906 and 1940?].

Language Note:

In Yiddish.

Summary:

Notebook pages of a draft from a Hasidic memoir, in which the author writes about the sea journey (apparently during emigration, from Eastern Europe to England), thoughts about laxity in religion among American Jews (for example, "אמעריקא איז א טריפרני מדינה עס איז באמת נישט מעגליך דורט צו לעבול אין ארויס אגושטער", f. 2r) and conversations with a Reform rabbi in England, and viewing the ocean liner RMS Mauretania (launched 1906). Torn on the outer margin from a notebook; written in a cursive Yiddish script.

Contents:

1. Der shoyshpieler

2. Der Idn ḳumṭ on oyf Ameriḳe

3. A tsuḳunfṭige a Reform rabi

4. Ḥasidut in Ameriḳe, yom 3 Ba-midbar

5. Mareṭanya, mayn rebenshe arbeyṭ, yom 4 Ba-midbar.

1. דער שוישפיעלער

2. דער אידן קומט אן אויף אמעריקע

3. א צוקונפטיגע א ריפארם רבי

4. חסידות אין אמעריקע, יום ג' במדבר

5. מאריטאניא, מיין רעבענשע ארבייט, יום ד' במדבר.

Cited as:

Six short stories in Yiddish. (CAJS Misc Mss Collection, ARC Ms. 000.220.18). Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1416670648