REB SIMKHE PLAKHTE or The World Swindler

REB SIMKHE PLAKHTE or The World Swindler

Publication Date: January, 2017

Pages: 49

Format: ebook

Authors: Yankev Morgenshtern, Myra Mniewski

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Morgenshtern’s literary efforts were not limited to his attempts to reinvigorate Jewish folk literature. Aside from some translations from German and poems adapted from his career as a wedding jester, he was known for his anti-Hasidic folk satire Reb Simkhe Plakhte, oder Der velt shvindler (Simkhe Coarse-Cloth, or the Man Who Fooled the World), probably first written at the end of the 1870s; the first edition was likely published by L. Nisenkorn around 1880. A tale of a simple man taken for a holy figure far above his station, the work was frequently reprinted.