Gimpel Beynish the Matchmaker: Samuel Zagat's Yiddish Comic Strips 1912-1914. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.Gimpel Beynish the Matchmaker: Samuel Zagat's Yiddish Comic Strips 1912-1914

Samuel Zagat's cartoons of a little luckless matchmaker ran in the Warheit from December 1912 to 1919 and then continued in the Yiddish Forverts for decades. Their impish humor and dyed-in-the-wool Yiddishkeit have been revived and their captions have been translated for all to enjoy. 252 comic strips are included. A free PDF file of the retyped Yiddish captions is available on request.

Samuel Zagat (1887-1964) came from Lithuania to New York as a young child. His Gimpel Beynish character was famous and beloved, the subject of songs and operettas and for many was the primary reason to read the paper in the morning. The editor of Warheit, Louis B. Miller, hired Zagat in 1912; his political cartoons first appeared in March of that year and his first Gimpel Beynish cartoon appeared December 8. Jacob C. Rich, one of his editors, wrote that, while the ideas and text accompanying the drawings were Miller’s, "Zagat endued them with a playfulness and a Jewish charm that no other artist was able to duplicate" (Forward, July 25, 1964).