Iyov of Minsk [i.e. Joseph Brill]. Kitzur Shulchan Aruch Hilchoth Ashiruth [laws for the wealthy].

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Hotza’ah

Vilna

1912

The author Joseph Brill (1839-1919), better known by his pen name Iyov of Minsk, was “one of the foremost satirists of the nineteenth century…As a humorist he displayed a keen sense of the ludicrous…a delicate irony and a deep pathos.” (Davidson, Parody in Jewish Literature pp. 88, 96). Here, Brill humorously describes the lives of the wealthy including their views on gambling and on charity.