Itzik Manger, the Glossary

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1. 68 relations: Abraham, Abraham Goldfaden, Ahasuerus, Ashkenazi Jews, Austria-Hungary, Ballad, Berlin, Blend word, Book of Esther, Boris Carmi, Bucharest, Bukovina, Chernivtsi, Diminutive, Dov Seltzer, Duchy of Bukovina, Eastern Europe, England, Esther, Folklore, France, Gedera, German literature, Golda Meir, Hagar, Hertz Grosbard, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Ishmael, Israel, Israil Bercovici, Jews, Leo Fuld, Levi Eshkol, Liverpool, London, Marseille, Midrash, Moyshe Nadir, Musical theatre, Nahalat Yitzhak Cemetery, Oral Torah, PEN International, Poland, President of Israel, Prime Minister of Israel, Purim, Purim spiel, Rokhl Auerbakh, Romani people, Romania, ... Expand index (18 more) »

2. Writers from Chernivtsi
3. Yiddish-language dramatists and playwrights

Abraham

Abraham (originally Abram) is the common Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

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Abraham Goldfaden

Abraham Goldfaden (אַבֿרהם גאָלדפֿאַדען; born Avrum Goldnfoden; 24 July 1840 – 9 January 1908), also known as Avram Goldfaden, was a Russian-born Jewish poet, playwright, stage director and actor in Yiddish and Hebrew languages and author of some 40 plays. Itzik Manger and Abraham Goldfaden are Yiddish-language dramatists and playwrights.

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Ahasuerus

Ahasuerus (commonly Achashverosh; Asouḗros, in the Septuagint; Assuerus in the Vulgate) is a name applied in the Hebrew Bible to three rulers of Ancient Persia and to a Babylonian official (or Median king) first appearing in the Tanakh in the Book of Esther and later in the Christian Book of Tobit.

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Ashkenazi Jews

Ashkenazi Jews (translit,; Ashkenazishe Yidn), also known as Ashkenazic Jews or Ashkenazim, constitute a Jewish diaspora population that emerged in the Holy Roman Empire around the end of the first millennium CE. They traditionally spoke Yiddish and largely migrated towards northern and eastern Europe during the late Middle Ages due to persecution.

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Austria-Hungary

Austria-Hungary, often referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire or the Dual Monarchy, was a multi-national constitutional monarchy in Central Europe between 1867 and 1918.

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Ballad

A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music.

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.

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Blend word

In linguistics, a blend—also known as a blend word, lexical blend, or portmanteau—is a word formed, usually intentionally, by combining the sounds and meanings of two or more words.

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Book of Esther

The Book of Esther (Megillat Ester; Ἐσθήρ; Liber Esther), also known in Hebrew as "the Scroll" ("the Megillah"), is a book in the third section (כְּתוּבִים "Writings") of the Hebrew Bible.

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Boris Carmi

Boris Carmi (1 January 1914 in Moscow, as Boris Winograd – 18 September 2002 in Tel Aviv) was a Russian-born Israeli photographer.

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Bucharest

Bucharest (București) is the capital and largest city of Romania.

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Bukovina

BukovinaBukowina or Buchenland; Bukovina; Bukowina; Bucovina; Bukovyna; see also other languages.

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Chernivtsi

Chernivtsi (Чернівці,; Cernăuți,; see also other names) is a city in southwestern Ukraine on the upper course of the Prut River.

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Diminutive

A diminutive is a word obtained by modifying a root word to convey a slighter degree of its root meaning, either to convey the smallness of the object or quality named, or to convey a sense of intimacy or endearment, and sometimes to derogatorily belittle something or someone.

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Dov Seltzer

Dov (Dubi) Seltzer (דב (דובי) זלצר; born 26 January 1932) is a Romanian-born Israeli composer and conductor.

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Duchy of Bukovina

The Duchy of Bukovina (Herzogtum Bukowina or Herzogtum Buchenland; Ducatul Bucovinei; translit) was a constituent land of the Austrian Empire from 1849 and a Cisleithanian crown land of Austria-Hungary from 1867 until 1918.

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Eastern Europe

Eastern Europe is a subregion of the European continent.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Esther

Esther, originally Hadassah, is the eponymous heroine of the Book of Esther in the Hebrew Bible.

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Folklore

Folklore is the body of expressive culture shared by a particular group of people, culture or subculture.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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Gedera

Gedera, or less commonly known as Gdera (גְּדֵרָה), is a town in the southern part of the Shfela region in the Central District of Israel founded in 1884.

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German literature

German literature comprises those literary texts written in the German language.

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Golda Meir

Golda Meir (3 May 1898 – 8 December 1978) was an Israeli politician who served as the fourth prime minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974.

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Hagar

According to the Book of Genesis, Hagar was an Egyptian slave, a handmaiden of Sarah (then known as Sarai), whom Sarah gave to her own husband Abram (later renamed Abraham) as a wife to bear him a child.

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Hertz Grosbard

Hertz Grosbard (1892−1994) was a Polish reciter.

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Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer (יצחק באַשעװיס זינגער; 1904 – July 24, 1991) was a Polish-born Jewish-American novelist, short-story writer, memoirist, essayist, and translator.

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Ishmael

Ishmael was the first son of Abraham, according to the Abrahamic religions.

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Israel

Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.

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Israil Bercovici

Israil Bercovici (ישראל בערקאָװיטש; 1921–1988) was a Jewish Romanian dramaturg, playwright, director, biographer, and memoirist, who served the State Jewish Theater of Romania between 1955 and 1982; he also wrote Yiddish-language poetry. Itzik Manger and Israil Bercovici are 20th-century Romanian poets, Romanian male poets and Yiddish-language poets.

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Jews

The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.

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Leo Fuld

Lazarus 'Leo' Fuld (Yiddish: לעאָ פֿולד; Rotterdam, October 29, 1912 – Amsterdam, June 10, 1997) was a Dutch singer who specialised in Yiddish songs.

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Levi Eshkol

Levi Eshkol (לוי אשכול;‎ 25 October 1895 – 26 February 1969), born Levi Yitzhak Shkolnik (לוי יצחק שקולניק), was an Israeli statesman who served as the third Prime Minister of Israel from 1963 until his death from a heart attack in 1969.

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Liverpool

Liverpool is a cathedral, port city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Marseille

Marseille or Marseilles (Marseille; Marselha; see below) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region.

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Midrash

Midrash (. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. מִדְרָשׁ; מִדְרָשִׁים or midrashot) is expansive Jewish Biblical exegesis using a rabbinic mode of interpretation prominent in the Talmud.

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Moyshe Nadir

Yitzchak Rayz (1885, Narayiv – 1943, Woodstock), better known by his pen name Moyshe Nadir (Yiddish: משה נאדיר; also transliterated "Moishe") was an American Yiddish language writer and satirist.

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Musical theatre

Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance.

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Nahalat Yitzhak Cemetery

Nahalat Yitzhak Cemetery (בית העלמין נחלת יצחק) is a Jewish municipal burial ground in the Tel Aviv District city of Givatayim, Israel, east of the Nahalat Yitzhak neighborhood of Tel Aviv.

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Oral Torah

According to Rabbinic Judaism, the Oral Torah or Oral Law (תּוֹרָה שֶׁבְּעַל־פֶּה.|Tōrā šebbəʿal-pe|) are statutes and legal interpretations that were not recorded in the Five Books of Moses, the Written Torah (תּוֹרָה שֶׁבִּכְתָב|Tōrā šebbīḵṯāv|"Written Law"|label.

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PEN International

PEN International (known as International PEN until 2010) is a worldwide association of writers, founded in London in 1921 to promote friendship and intellectual co-operation among writers everywhere.

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Poland

Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe.

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President of Israel

The president of the State of Israel (Nesi Medinat Yisra'el, or Nesi HaMedina President of the State) is the head of state of Israel.

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Prime Minister of Israel

The prime minister of Israel (Head of the Government, Hebrew acronym: רה״מ; رئيس الحكومة, Ra'īs al-Ḥukūma) is the head of government and chief executive of the State of Israel.

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Purim

Purim (see Name below) is a Jewish holiday that commemorates the saving of the Jewish people from annihilation at the hands of an official of the Achaemenid Empire named Haman, as it is recounted in the Book of Esther (usually dated to the 5th century BCE).

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Purim spiel

A Purim spiel (also spelled Purimshpil, פּורימשפּיל,, see also spiel) or Purim play is an ensemble of festive practices for Purim.

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Rokhl Auerbakh

Rokhl Auerbakh (רחל אוירבך, also spelled Rokhl Oyerbakh and Rachel Auerbach) (18 December 1903 – 31 May 1976) was an Israeli writer, essayist, historian, Holocaust scholar, and Holocaust survivor.

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Romani people

The Romani, also spelled Romany or Rromani and colloquially known as the Roma (Rom), are an ethnic group of Indo-Aryan origin who traditionally lived a nomadic, itinerant lifestyle.

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Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeast Europe.

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Romanization

In linguistics, romanization is the conversion of text from a different writing system to the Roman (Latin) script, or a system for doing so.

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Sarah

Sarah (born Sarai) is a biblical matriarch, prophet, and major figure in Abrahamic religions.

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Sea Gate, Brooklyn

Sea Gate is a private gated community at the far western end of Coney Island at the southwestern tip of the New York City borough of Brooklyn.

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State Jewish Theater (Romania)

Teatrul Evreiesc de Stat (TES, the State Jewish Theater) in Bucharest, Romania is a theater specializing in Jewish-related plays.

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Statelessness

In international law, a stateless person is someone who is "not considered as a national by any state under the operation of its law".

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Teddy Kollek

Theodor "Teddy" Kollek (טדי קולק; 27 May 1911 – 2 January 2007) was an Israeli politician who served as the mayor of Jerusalem from 1965 to 1993, and founder of the Jerusalem Foundation.

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The Sorceress (play)

The Witch of Botoşani or simply The Witch or The Sorceress (original Yiddish title Di Kishefmakhern) was an 1878, or possibly 1877, play by Abraham Goldfaden.

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Torah

The Torah (תּוֹרָה, "Instruction", "Teaching" or "Law") is the compilation of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, namely the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy.

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Transliteration

Transliteration is a type of conversion of a text from one script to another that involves swapping letters (thus trans- + liter-) in predictable ways, such as Greek →, Cyrillic →, Greek → the digraph, Armenian → or Latin →.

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Tunis

Tunis (تونس) is the capital and largest city of Tunisia.

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Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe.

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Velvel Zbarjer

Velvel Zbarjer (1824, Zbarazh – 1884), birth name Benjamin Wolf Ehrenkrantz (a.k.a. Velvl Zbarjer, Zbarjur, Zbarzher, etc.), a Galician Jew, was a Brody singer.

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Warsaw

Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and largest city of Poland.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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Yale University Press

Yale University Press is the university press of Yale University.

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Yiddish

Yiddish (ייִדיש, יידיש or אידיש, yidish or idish,,; ייִדיש-טײַטש, historically also Yidish-Taytsh) is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews.

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Yiddish theatre

Yiddish theatre consists of plays written and performed primarily by Jews in Yiddish, the language of the Central European Ashkenazi Jewish community.

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Zalman Shazar

Zalman Shazar (זלמן שז"ר; born Šnejer Zalman Rubašow; Шнэер За́льман Рубашо́ў; Шне́ер За́лмен Рубашо́в; November 24, 1889 – October 5, 1974) was an Israeli politician, author and poet. Itzik Manger and Zalman Shazar are Yiddish-language poets.

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See also

Writers from Chernivtsi

• Alexandru Leca Morariu
• Anatoly Vishevsky
• Danylo Yanevsky
• Daryna Maxymets
• Ezra Heymann
• Georg Marco
• George Popovici
• Gregor von Rezzori
• Hayyim Tyrer
• Heinrich Bresnitz
• Iryna Vilde
• Itzik Manger
• Joseph Gregor
• Klara Blum
• Marie Holzer
• Martha Blum
• Maximilien Rubel
• Mihai Pelin
• Modest Morariu
• Mordkhe Schaechter
• Moysey Fishbein
• Ninon Hesse
• Paul Celan
• Peter Demant
• Radu Sbiera
• Rose Ausländer
• Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger
• Sydir Vorobkevych
• Volodymyr Melnykov

Yiddish-language dramatists and playwrights

• Aaron Zeitlin
• Abraham Goldfaden
• Alter Kacyzne
• Anshel Schorr
• Avrom Ber Gotlober
• Bernard Gorin
• Bertha Wiernik
• David Apotheker
• David Bergelson
• David Ignatoff
• David M. Hermalin
• David Pinski
• Gershom Bader
• H. Leivick
• Isabella Grinevskaya
• Israel Freedman
• Israel Joshua Singer
• Israel Wachser
• Itzik Manger
• Jacob Gordin
• Jacob Steinberg
• Julius Adler (actor)
• Louis Reingold
• Mark Daniel
• Michael Zametkin
• Mikhoel Felsenbaum
• Miriam Hoffman
• Miriam Karpilove
• Moses Horowitz
• Moyshe Kulbak
• Nahum Meir Schaikewitz
• Peretz Hirschbein
• Peretz Markish
• Reuben Iceland
• Rudolph Marks
• S. An-sky
• Sholem Asch
• William Edlin
• Yente Serdatzky
• Yosl Cutler
• Zalmon Libin
• Zuni Maud

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itzik_Manger

Also known as Itsik Manger, Manger Prize, Yitzchak Manger, Yitzchok Manger.

, Romanization, Sarah, Sea Gate, Brooklyn, State Jewish Theater (Romania), Statelessness, Teddy Kollek, The Sorceress (play), Torah, Transliteration, Tunis, Ukraine, Velvel Zbarjer, Warsaw, World War I, Yale University Press, Yiddish, Yiddish theatre, Zalman Shazar.