The Book of Hebrews in Yiddish and English

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 22, 1911

The Book of Hebrews in Yiddish and English

WE reproduce this week the facsimile of a title-page of the book of Hebrews in Yiddish and English, prepared by Elder F. C. Gilbert. Concerning this, one of his workers writes:—

“The work of getting out this little book was not altogether uneventful. The first type was set Oct. 5, 1910, in the English. This work did not require so long a time; but when it came to the Yiddish, we realized that there was careful and earnest work to be done; not so much as a ‘jot or a tittle’ was to be omitted, and every little dot and dash must be in the right position, in order to convey the true sense of the Word to the reader.

“It required two operations to set a line of Yiddish reading-matter. First, the Hebrew characters must be set, correctly spelling out each word; then the points, which mean so much in giving the reader a correct rendering of the ‘sense’ of the reading, must be placed in position under the different words, the whole reading from right to left, beginning at the back of the book, and reading toward the front. So far as we know, this is the first effort to give the New Testament to the Jews in the Yiddish and the English, and we rejoice that we had a part in the work.”