The Travels of Benjamin III
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The Travels of Benjamin III (מסעות בנימין השלישי, Masa'os Binyamin Ha-Shelishi) is a satirical work from the writer Mendele Mocher Sforim. The work was published first in the year 1878 in Yiddish, and, from then, until today, it has been considered by some[who?] to be the greatest satire on exilic Jewish life. The work is modeled after the Miguel de Cervantes novel Don Quixote.[1]
The titular character is considered the third great Jewish Benjamin to be a traveler: the first being Benjamin of Tudela, and the second being J. J. Benjamin.[1]
References
[edit | edit source]- Dara Horn, The Brief Travels of Benjamin the Third by S.Y. Abramovitsh (Mendele Moykher Sforim)" at Yiddish Book Center https://web.archive.org/web/20140514220805/http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/node/296
