Wednesday 1 October 2014

YITSKHOK ASHKENAZI (ISAAC ASCHKENASY)

YITSKHOK ASHKENAZI (ISAAC ASCHKENASY)

He was a rabbi in New York.  He collected and adapted witticisms, jokes, and aphorisms which he published in a volume entitled Oytsres fun yidishn humor (Treasury of Jewish humor) (New York, 1929), part 1, 192 pp.  He was also the author of Di galerye fun unshterblekhe mener (The gallery of immortal men)—from Abraham to Herzl—and of the religious works: Kibuts galuyot (Ingathering of exiles) and Ha-golah ve-ha-geulah (The exile and the redemption).

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