Storm in the Community: Yiddish Political Pamphlets of Amsterdam Jewry, 1797-1798 by Jozeph Michman and Marion Aptroot textbook Charles Bernstein

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Storm in the Community: Yiddish Political Pamphlets of Amsterdam Jewry, 1797-1798 by Jozeph Michman and Marion Aptroot textbook Charles BernsteinBilingual Yiddish and English text Translated by Jozeph Michman Written in Amsterdam Yiddish and full of colorful invective, these weekly dialogues in the satirical tradition of the English Spectator and similar periodicals allowed the breakaway community (the naye kille) to expose the inequalities and foibles of the establishment community (alte kille), which was heretofore supported by the government. In the wake of the reforms of the French