Hershele Ostropoler ( Yiddish הערשעלע אָסטראָפּאָלער - Hershele ( Erschel ) Ostropoler , lit. Gersh from Ostropol ; 1757 , Ostropol - 1811 , Medzhibozh ) - a historical person, a Jew from Ostropol, famous for his antics and accurate answers, who became one of the main characters, who became one of the main characters oral tradition, in particular jokes and anecdotes of East European Jews.
| Herschele Ostropoler | |
|---|---|
| Yiddish הערשעלע אָסטראָפּאָלער | |
 Grave of Herschel Ostropolera | |
| Date of Birth | |
| Place of Birth | Old Ostropol |
| Date of death | |
| A place of death | Medzhibozh |
| Occupation | shoikhet buffoon |
Content
- 1 From biography
- 2 Ostropoler - a literary character
- 3 Literature
- 4 notes
From Biography
Hershele Ostropoler was born in the Volyn town of Ostropol . By profession, he was a shoikhet, that is, a butcher who slaughter cattle and poultry in accordance with ritual prescriptions, but the need made him a traveler. During one of these trips, he was taken to his service as a jester-adviser by the famous tzaddik Rebbe Borukh Tulchinsky, also known as Borukh Medzhibozhsky (1750-1810), the grandson of Baal Shem Tov .
A folk joker and wit, Ostropoler not only entertained the tzaddik with his funny jokes, trying to save him from melancholy, but sometimes he condemned his temperance and bouts of causeless anger. According to legend, after one of these witticisms against the tzaddik, the Hasidim threw Ostropolera from the stairs and he soon died, apparently from his wounds.
Herschel is buried in the old Jewish cemetery Mezhdibozh. The inscription on the tablet, written in Hebrew, is translated into Russian as follows [1] :
Buried here
holy rabbi Zvi from Ostropol,
referred to as Herschel Ostropoler,
the righteous and God-fearing,
living in Galicia
in the third generation of hasidism
court jester rabbi Baruch from Medzhibozh,
grandson of Baal Shem Tov
Ostropoler - literary character
Hershele Ostropoler was a very popular person during his lifetime, after his death he quickly became the hero of numerous stories, jokes and jokes of the Jews of Podolia and Volhynia , then turned into one of the most popular characters of folklore of Eastern European Jews. In folk tales, the image of Herschel Ostropoler is multifaceted, which brings him closer to the folk jokers of other nations, including the world-famous oriental Khoja Nasreddin : he is a sage and a simpleton, a truth-seeker and a deceiver, a pious and ungodly in one person. The plot basis of the vast majority of folk tales of Herschel Ostropolera is the relationship between the joker and his patron, tzadik Boruch. Collections of stories and jokes about the Ostropolera are published in Yiddish, Hebrew, Russian, German, English and other languages.
The huge folklore popularity of Herschel Ostropolera became the reason for the fact that he, as a hero, also got into the works of professional culture. The folklore version of the death of Ostropolera and his “fun” funeral are reflected in the story of I. Manger “Hershl from Ostropol”. The life and adventures of Ostropolera became a topic for others, mainly Yiddish writers: Froim Oyerbach , M. Lifshitz (1894-1940), his play about the Ostropolera was staged by the Vilnius troupe in the early 1930s, I. Trunk , who devoted his novel Der Freilehster id in der Welt (The Most Cheerful Jew in the World, 1953). Isaac Babel in the story "Shabos-naham" (1918) described the life of a large, impoverished household poor Gershele Ostropolera. "Gershele Ostropoler" by M. Gershenzon is the last performance of the Moscow GOSET , which took place on November 16, 1949.
Literature
- Ostropolera Herschele - article from the Electronic Jewish Encyclopedia
- Herschel Ostropoler. Jokes
- Jewish folk tales, traditions, tales, stories, jokes collected by E. S. Raise / Compilation and introduction by V. Dymshits. - St. Petersburg: Symposium, 1999. - S. 229-243, 450-452. - 496 p. - 5000. - ISBN 5-89091-093-0
Notes
- ↑ Have you been to the grave of Herschel Ostropolera? (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment July 26, 2012. Archived November 12, 2013.