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Popular satirical newspaper published in pre-mandate Palestine by Kadish Yehuda Leib Silman. Yehudim (irregularly between 1909 and 1927). This issue, no. 2, contains verse and articles, accompanied by several illustrations. The articles and illustrations can be biting, for example an almost full page illustration has the heading ha-egel ve-ha-Mishkan be-Yerushalim with the name in parenthesis, Samboliah). The illustration shows an obese vested man holding a bag of money with a thin dark suited man holding his arm, an obvious political preference.
Kadish Yehuda Leib Silman (1880–1937) was a Hebrew writer and satirist. Born near Vilna, Silman taught in Vilna's first Hebrew school in which Hebrew was the language of instruction, and later directed a "modern heder" in Gomel. In 1907 he immigrated to Palestine and devoted his life to teaching, mostly in Jerusalem. He was one of the founders of Tel Aviv and of the neighborhood of Bet ha-Kerem in Jerusalem. His literary poems, stories, and articles from Palestine (his series of newsletters to Haolam under the general title of "Mikhtavim el Ah") became famous. His contribution to the fields of popular ballads, poetry, satire, and humor was also of importance. His books for children include Shirim la-Am (1910); Zimrei Am (folk songs, 1927); Lekhu Nerannenah (70 folk songs with musical notes, 1928); Mordekhai ve-Haman (a play for children, 1934); and Shimon Sevivon (a story, 1937). In the field of humor, parody and satire, he published Massekhet Bava Tekhnikah (c. 1910) and Shas Erez Yisre'eli Katan (a parody dealing with the language conflict, c. 1913). He also published satiric newspapers for several decades, including La-Yehdim and Aspaklaryah (1920).
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