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Yiddish Books and Their Readers
Roback, A. A. | October 12, 1918 issue

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Until recently the literary achievements of the Jewish people were the productions of their geniuses. With the development of a Yiddish literature came the education of the lower classes. There are comparatively few translations in Yiddish, and as late as 1890 Jules Verne was the only foreign author whose stories were given a Yiddish version, in the form of abridged adaptations. At one time, the Yiddish book market was flooded with such books of adventure. It is characteristic of an abnormal literature like Yiddish that the great masters of all times have been totally neglected.

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YIDDISH literature; BOOKS & reading; JEWISH literature; TRANSLATIONS; VERNE, Jules; BOOKS
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