First Light - From Austria to Israel and to London

Fartog means dawn or first light in Yiddish. The Blog is named after the street I use to live in which is named after a Jewish magazine published in 19^th century Vienna by Smolenskin, Gordon, Lilenblum and Shlomo Rubin The paper advocated radical ideas, discarding the emancipation leaders such as Mendelson. But the most famous writer is Eliezer Ben-Yehuda who published his first article called "Burning Question" ((שאלה נכבדה

For what ever reason it might be, Smolenskin is forgotten and all we are left with is a pseudo intellectual, who invented a scrambled, incoherent language. Plus, his son was more annoying!

This blog concerns alternative culture vs. Mainstream idiocracy; maybe here is a good place to start.

Above: Jesse James or Peretz Smolenskin?