Monday 1 June 2015

YANKEV GOLDMAN

YANKEV GOLDMAN (b. 1847)
            He was born in Minsk, Byelorussia.  For a time he was a member of the local Jewish community council.  He authored a religious work, entitled Tapuḥe zahav (Fruit of gold), part 1 (Minsk, 1887), 108 pp., in which he translated in a folkish Yiddish various sayings, legends, and expressions found in Tanakh, Talmud, and midrash, literally and figuratively.


Source: Hayom (St. Petersburg) (February 1, 1887).

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