INV. 085 · Photograph
Photograph of Sholem Aleichem (1907)
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Period photograph of the writer whose prose helped elevate modern Yiddish. The file id keeps the legacy frontispiece name, though the image is a 1907 photographic portrait rather than the book frontispiece cited in the chapter.
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- Type
- Photograph
- Nature
- Period photographA photograph taken at the time of the events it shows.
- Date of the object
- c. 1907Approximate date based on the object's identification.
- Image
- Unknown
- Licence
- Public domain
- Retrieved
- Commons API, 2026-10-15
Sourced historical context
Mendele, Peretz, and Sholem Aleichem raised Yiddish into a major European literature.