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unusual facts about Yiddish literature



Sol Liptzin

Sol Liptzin (1901 – 15 November 1995) was a scholar, author, and educator in Yiddish and German literature.

Terespol

Terespol features in a novel by the Yiddish Nobel Prize-winning writer Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Family Moskat (1950), in which the young protagonist, Asa Heshel Bennet, comes to Warsaw from his hometown of Terespol Minor to study.


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Bevis of Hampton

The information about the Yiddish version can be found in Sol Liptzin, A History of Yiddish Literature, Jonathan David Publishers, Middle Village, NY, 1972, ISBN 0-8246-0124-6.