MONI (MENAKHEM-MANES) DLUGATSH (DLUGACH)

MONI (MENAKHEM-MANES) DLUGATSH (DLUGACH)

            He was born in Alt-Konstantin, Volhynia.  He began publishing feature pieces in the late 1860s for Kol mevaser (Herald).  Under the influence of Y. Y. Linetski, he published satirical anti-Hassidic anthologies, and he also placed a correspondence piece in Yudishes folksblat (Jewish people’s newspaper) 22 (1882).  One of his pamphlets, Di velt mesoyre (Legend of the world) (Warsaw, 1881), was highly successful, and in 1895 a seventh edition of it was printed in Warsaw (68 pp.).  In addition, he published Der oylematoyenik (The errant soul) (Berdichev: Fayvl Molodovski, 1875), 170 pp.  Metsies hasheydim, naye sistem inem oylem haatsiles, gegrindet oyf lebens und natur-gezetse (Bargains with the devil, a new system in the refined realm, grounded in life and natural law) (Vilna, 1895), 113 pp.

Sources: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 1; Sholem-Aleykhem, a review in Sholem-alekhem-bukh, ed. Y. D. Berkovitsh (New York, 1926), pp. 326, 327, 328; Israel Davidson, Parody in Jewish Literature (New York, 1907), p. 216.