A.M. Sharkansky. A Shpitzel fun a Purim-Shpieler ["A Prank of a Purim Player": Purim parody]
AUCTION 50 |
Thursday, February 24th,
2011 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art Including: The Alfonso Cassuto Collection of Iberian Art
Lot 186
(PARODY)
A.M. Sharkansky. A Shpitzel fun a Purim-Shpieler ["A Prank of a Purim Player": Purim parody]
New York: Katzenellenbogen 1899
Est: $150 - $200
PRICE REALIZED $150
We find in the present Purim parody an echo of the recent Dreyfus Affair:
Q. "Vo iz dermont di Dreyfus Case in der Megillah?" ("Where is there mentioned in the Megillah the Dreyfus Case?")
A. "…vet shpeter heisen di Dreyfus Geschichte 'Megilas Esther-Hazy' (Esterhazy)" ("…later the Dreyfus Affair will be referred to as Megillath Esther-hazy [Esterhazy]") (bot. p.4).
The poet and dramatist A.M. Sharkansky (1869-1907) is celebrated for his parodical Hagadah, Die Neie Amerikanischer Hagadah, a satire on the Jewish immigrant experience in America. See Davidson, Parody in Jewish Literature, p. 246; Leksikon fun der Nayer Yidisher Literatur (1981) Vol. VIII, pp. 556-58.