Gil Ribak
Biographic Data
| ID | 1529008 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gil Ribak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gil |
| FAMILY NAME | Ribak |
| SIGNATURE | RIBAK G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arizona |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Forged in America
The Organ of the Jewish People
The article examines the history of the first sustainable Yiddish daily in the world, Yidishes tageblat (Jewish Daily News), published in New York between 1885 and 1928). The history of the Tageblat exposes two lacunas in the existing scholarship about Yiddish culture in America. First, there are almost no English-language studies about Orthodox Yiddish newspapers. Second, whereas many historians have accepted and repeated a characterization of t…
Reportage from Blotetown
The neglected-but-popular Yiddish humorist Tashrak (penname of Yisroel-Yoysef Zevin) offers not just an opportunity to discover understudied aspects of the Jewish urban experience and modern Yiddish culture, but also allows us to tap into a less refined level of beliefs, behavior, judgments and attitudes of Yiddish-speaking Jews in America. Tashrak wittily conveyed to his readers a comforting image of the New World: New York City was just an enla…
Eeja in Action
Against your will you live, and – against your will you’re a Jew! Bokvil (Bucksville/Foolsville) is a small town in the state of New Jersey, which has about 20,000 residents in all, according to th
Negroes Must Not Be Likened to Jews”
Writing in early 1903, Peter (Peretz) Wiernik, the editor of the New York Orthodox Yiddish daily, Morgen Zhurnal (Morning Journal), tried to explain to English language readers the acute predicaments faced by Jews who lived among Russians. In an article titled “The Jew in Russia,” Wiernik referred to the Russian masses as, “the unhappy medium between the Asiatic and the European .... Left to himself, the Russian is a most helpless human being.” W…
Between Germany and Russia
The Jew Usually Left Those Crimes to Esau”
This article examines how communal activists, leaders, intellectuals, and the Yiddish press understood and reacted to charges regarding purported Jewish criminality, which accusers often linked to the need to curtail immigration to America. The Jewish self-image as a nonviolent people proved to be quite resilient, and one of the ways to reconcile the existence of Jewish criminals with that self-perception was to put the blame on the surrounding (…
Beaten to Death by Irish Murderers
A Jew for All Seasons
Beaten to Death by Irish Murderers
The Jew Usually Left Those Crimes to Esau”
This article examines how communal activists, leaders, intellectuals, and the Yiddish press understood and reacted to charges regarding purported Jewish criminality, which accusers often linked to the need to curtail immigration to America. The Jewish self-image as a nonviolent people proved to be quite resilient, and one of the ways to reconcile the existence of Jewish criminals with that self-perception was to put the blame on the surrounding (…
A Jew for All Seasons
Beaten to Death by Irish Murderers
The Jew Usually Left Those Crimes to Esau”
This article examines how communal activists, leaders, intellectuals, and the Yiddish press understood and reacted to charges regarding purported Jewish criminality, which accusers often linked to the need to curtail immigration to America. The Jewish self-image as a nonviolent people proved to be quite resilient, and one of the ways to reconcile the existence of Jewish criminals with that self-perception was to put the blame on the surrounding (…
Between Germany and Russia
Negroes Must Not Be Likened to Jews”
Writing in early 1903, Peter (Peretz) Wiernik, the editor of the New York Orthodox Yiddish daily, Morgen Zhurnal (Morning Journal), tried to explain to English language readers the acute predicaments faced by Jews who lived among Russians. In an article titled “The Jew in Russia,” Wiernik referred to the Russian masses as, “the unhappy medium between the Asiatic and the European .... Left to himself, the Russian is a most helpless human being.” W…
Reportage from Blotetown
The neglected-but-popular Yiddish humorist Tashrak (penname of Yisroel-Yoysef Zevin) offers not just an opportunity to discover understudied aspects of the Jewish urban experience and modern Yiddish culture, but also allows us to tap into a less refined level of beliefs, behavior, judgments and attitudes of Yiddish-speaking Jews in America. Tashrak wittily conveyed to his readers a comforting image of the New World: New York City was just an enla…
Eeja in Action
Against your will you live, and – against your will you’re a Jew! Bokvil (Bucksville/Foolsville) is a small town in the state of New Jersey, which has about 20,000 residents in all, according to th
The Organ of the Jewish People
The article examines the history of the first sustainable Yiddish daily in the world, Yidishes tageblat (Jewish Daily News), published in New York between 1885 and 1928). The history of the Tageblat exposes two lacunas in the existing scholarship about Yiddish culture in America. First, there are almost no English-language studies about Orthodox Yiddish newspapers. Second, whereas many historians have accepted and repeated a characterization of t…
Forged in America
History (9 works) · Judaism (8 works) · History (7 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Yiddish (5 works)