This text by David Frischmann is one of the first mature and successful Hebrew feuilletons in the 19th century, an urbane, witty, light, and yet significant text in the tradition of the French, German, and Russian feuilletons. The text begins with a light-hearted description of the Jewish community in St. Petersburg, but it also raises issues of sociability and modernity, as well as questions about Jewish writing—in Jewish and non-Jewish languages—and the place of Jews in the history of European press (including the feuilleton) and literature.

Flying Letters

אותיות פורחות

Otiyot Porhot

February 26, 1886

Shachar Pinsker

Shachar Pinsker

no known copyright

modernity, non-Jews, press, antisemitism