Gimpel Beynish the Matchmaker
(Gimpl Beynish der Shadkhn)
Yiddish Comics of the early 20th century

Today's Yinglish: "staylish" "regele" "leydi" ...

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February 4, 1915: Well, who can call him old fashioned?

1. What kind of a horror is this? Glasses like a ram's horn.
   
2. Him too! It's a regular epidemic of some kind.
   
3. Am I dreaming? Ladies, too?
   
4. Well, if the whole world's gone crazy no sense being the only wise one.
   
5. Now let somebody try to say Gimpel Beynish is not stylish.

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February 4, 1915: Nikolai's bath attendants in Europe and America
On his coat: Blood libel, Siberia, rage in Galicia, pogroms, rage against Jews. The three bath attendants are French socialists, American correspondents, and English journalists. The caption reads: How French socialists, English journalists and American correspondents give the bloody hangman a bath, washing him clean of all his crimes.

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Labels: fashion, political cartoon, war, World War I