“The Bloody Hoax” Online

The American Yiddishist Raphael (Refoel) Finkel has published on the Internet the original Yiddish text of Sholom Aleichem’s novel The Bloody Hoax, typed in using the standart YIVO spelling and provided with explanations of Russian, English and Latin words found in this work.

Finkel, a computer science professor at the University of Kentucky, is known as a pioneer in the computerization of Yiddish literature, as the author of the first Yiddish spell checker computer program and the creator of a major online resource dedicated to this language. From 1997 to 2006, together with the poet Sholom Berger, he directed the online magazine Der bavebter yid.