File:Sholem Aleichem hammering Yiddish.png

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English: A drawing of Sholem Aleykhem depicts him hammering the "jargon" language of Yiddish, into something of beauty. The drawing is featured in the satirical Der groyser kundis newspaper, published on May 9, 1916.
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Source Page 6 https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110820805.654
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"His friends, his enemies, and the truth are all in perfect agreement about Sholem Aleykhem: he took Yiddish from the scrap-heap ('jargon junk') and fashioned it into a thing of beauty ('golden Yiddish language')."

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