Storm in the Community
Yiddish Polemical Pamphlets of Amsterdam Jewry, 1797-1798.
Written in Amsterdam Yiddish and full of colorful invective, these weekly dialogues in the satirical tradition of the English Spectator allowed the breakaway Amsterdam Jewish community (the naye kille) to expose the inequalities and foibles of the establishment community (the alte kille). Not content to ignore the upstarts, the old community fought back with its own weekly dialogues. The resulting thirty-three diskursn, selections of which are translated here for the first time, constitute a unique phenomenon in Jewish history and Jewish journalism.
"A fascinating episode in the history of Dutch Jewry has now been rescued from oblivion."
-Shlomo Berger, HaAretz Books
Jozeph Michman is the founding director of the Institute for Research on
Dutch Jewry, Dinur Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Marion Aptroot is Professor of Yiddish Culture, Language, and Literature
at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Selected, translated, and introduced by Jozeph Michman and Marion Aptroot
2002 / 527 pages / ISBN 0-87820-220-X , cloth: $49.95
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