“The Rabbi from Bartenura”
Vilna, Poland, 1904. "Der bartenura"
Der bartenura (The Rabbi from Bartenura), by Ayzik Meyer Dik (died 1893), was published in Vilna by the printing house Widow and Brothers Romm. Vilna was a center of Jewish publishing in the 1800s and 1900s. It helped develop modern, Yiddish, and Hebrew literature. Dik was a native of Vilna. He was a prolific novel writer. And he was the first, and best-selling, Yiddish author.
The Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania is the custodian of Der Barṭenurah Eyn ṿunderlikhe rayze beshraybung, which was digitized with their consent as part of the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections project.
