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Avrom Nokhem Stencl אברהם נחום שטענצל
  • About
    • Acknowledgements
    • Contact 
    • Discovering More About A.N. Stencl
  • Events
    • Manchester Yiddish Residency 2024
    • ‘Loshn un lebn’ Online Event 4th June 2025
    • ‘Loshn un lebn’ Online Event 28th May 2025
    • ‘Loshn un lebn’ Online Event 21st May 2025
  • Stencl Projects
    • Stencl in Yiddish magazine ‘In geveb’
    • A Stencl Exhibition in Berlin
    • Yiddish.Berlin Reads Stencl
    • ‘The Poet of Whitechapel’ Radio Programme, 2022
    • ‘Friends of Yiddish’ Event
  • LL content pages
    • Loshn un lebn Content 1940 to December 1942
    • Loshn un lebn Content January 1943 to February 1945
    • Loshn un lebn Content March 1945 to November 1947
    • Loshn un lebn Content December 1947 to December 1949
    • Loshn un lebn Content January 1950 to January 1955
    • Loshn un lebn Content May 1955 to December 1959
    • Loshn un lebn Content February 1960 to December 1966
    • Loshn un lebn Content January 1967 to November 1981
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    • Loshn un lebn 1940 to 1945
    • Loshn un lebn 1946 to 1949
    • Loshn un lebn 1950 to 1954
    • Loshn un lebn 1955 to 1959
    • Loshn un lebn 1960 to 1967
    • Loshn un lebn 1968 to 1981

Avrom Nokhem Stencl אברהם נחום שטענצל

Loshn un lebn 1955 to 1959

This project began by identifying, gathering, and digitising almost the entire collection of Stencl’s Yiddish literary journals, including his earlier hetflekh (pamphlets) which were published between 1940 and 1946. The earliest pamphlets particularly those published from 1940 to 1942 were small publications of just a few pages, mainly featuring Stencl’s war poems. They were printed by Narod Press in Whitechapel who continued printing all subsequent issues for the next forty years for free being great supporters of the Yiddish poet and his Yiddish activities.

After 1943, these hetflekh developed and expanded into larger volumes, featuring contributions from other Yiddish writers and poets. However, Stencl remained the primary contributor, editor, and main distributor. From issue 72, published in January 1946, the magazine officially became known as the literary journal Loshn un lebn (Language & Life). It ran almost continuously every month until 1981. Around 325 issues were produced during this period, although the exact number is uncertain. The early pamphlets were inconsistently numbered, and some were not numbered at all. With the help of numerous institutions and individuals, the project team has tracked down, digitised, and shared here 311 issues, which were scattered across national and international archives and private collections. Combined this digital collection represents the largest freely accessible digitised collection of Stencl’s Yiddish magazines available anywhere.

Because these copies come from many different sources, there are variations in quality and format, for example a few of the very rare early issues of his hetflekh only survive as photocopies. Each journal is presented exactly as scanned, unaltered in condition, colour, or appearance. Some editions, particularly those from private collections, include Stencl’s own handwritten annotations and notes adding to their distinctiveness. This is a unique digital archive of a treasured collection of Yiddish magazines that document all aspects of Yiddish language, life and culture spanning a forty year period. 

To explore the contents of each edition in English, please use the LL Content Pages menu.

1955 01 280
1955 04 unnumbered
1955 05 281-284
1955 06-07 281-5-6
1955 08 287
1955 09 288
1955 10-11 289-290
1955 12 291
1956 01 292
1956 02-03 293-294
1956 04 295
1956 05 296
1956 06 297
1956 07-08 298-299
1956 09 300
1956 10 301
1956 11-12 302-303
1957 01 304
1957 02 305
1957 03-04 306-307
1957 05-07 308-310
1957 08 311
1957 09 312
1957 10-11 113-114
1957 12 315
1958 01 316
1958 02 317
1958 03-04 318-319
1958 05 320
1958 06-07 321-322
1958 08-09 323-324
1958 10 325
1958 11-12 326-327
1959 01 328
1959 02-03 329-330
1959 04 331
1959 05-06 332-333
1959 07-08 334-335
1959 09-10 336-337
1959 11 338
1959 12 339
Unlocking previously hidden histories of Yiddish culture
Unlocking previously hidden histories of Yiddish culture