Friday 11 August 2017

AVROM MORGENSHTERN

AVROM MORGENSHTERN
            He was the author of Eygl hazohev (The golden calf), “characterized and critiqued by Jewish brethren who worship and offer up…their entire lives to the golden calf….  Everything rendered by one genuinely simple and sweet pen.”  (Warsaw: B. Tursh, 1898), 120 pp.  This was a satire of Jewish customs in the city of “Ber-sheva” (Warsaw).

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), cols. 367-68.


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