Mogen Dovid (1894), Pogrommen, Schikseh, Soup Ladle, Iks Miks Driks

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 07:52:31PM -0400, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
> MOGEN DOVID
>
>    From THE MENORAH, February 1894, pg. 124:
>
>    With this, he laid Koppel's _Mogen Dovid_ on the table;they had not
> noticed during the conversation that he had held it in his hands. (...)
>    In Auschel's soul there dawned a different light than the one which rises
> in the east, toward which the big inscription of "_Misrach_" on the _Mogen
> Dovid_ points.
>
> (OED cites the JEWISH ENCYCLOPEDIA of 1904...The story is "At the Plow" by
> Leopold Kompert (1822-1886), translated by Rose Schulhoefer--ed.)

Actually OED cites Wolfenstein's _Idyls of Gass_ from 1901, another cite
that you sent in, s.v. _Magen David,_ so thanks for the antedate.

Jesse Sheidlower