Pashkevil: Difference between revisions

{{quote|[The pashkvilimpashkevilim] “makemake clear what is virtuous or acceptable behavior and what is not. They serve as expressive media that show what those who prepare and post as well as those who allow the poster to be displayed (the latter by attending to its meaning and not removing or covering it) consider to be acceptable or worthy of notice… The informed observer can thus use such signs as a window through which to glimpse what is appropriate behavior as well as what is on the mind of the community, its interests and concerns.” <ref name="Heilman2006">Heilman,{{cite ''book|author=Samuel C. Heilman|title=Sliding to the Right: The Contest for the Future of American Jewish Orthodoxy'', p. 22</ref> Given the unique sociological insight to be garnered from their study, [[National Library of Israel|Israel's National Library]] has begun to acquire private collections of pashkvilim to be preserved in a special section available for academic research.<ref>[httpurl=https://wwwbooks.vosizneiasgoogle.com/83889/2011/05/17/jerusalembooks?id=X7ld72vuLTkC&pg=PA212|year=2006|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-israel%E2%80%99s0-national520-library24763-acquires-largest-known-collection-of-israeli-pashkvillim VIN News: Israel’s National Library Acquires Largest Known Collection of Israeli Pashkvillim]5|pages=212–}}</ref>}}

The authority of pashkvilimpashkevilim iscan at times be subject to much dispute.{{citation needed|date=January 2013}} The medium is frequently used as an anonymous means of publicly attacking or undermining a person or group (which is sometimes in violation of the Jewish laws of [[loshonlashon horahara]]), andthough evenmany thoseother uses by official rabbinates or other open reliable organizations will use this method for whatever purpose. It is to be noted though, that bearat thetimes, namesan ofanonymously leadingwritten/signed RabbisPashkevil arecan oftenbe fraudulentfalsely written under a forged signature/name.{{citation needed|date=January 2013}}

“TheA Yiddishcolumn wordin pashkvilthe was''Jewish borrowedDaily fromForward'' claims the Polishword paszkwil,as whicha comesYiddish fromterm the(''pashkevil'') Frenchborrowed pasquilfrom orPolish pasquille''paszkwil'', which goesitself backcame tofrom the French pasquin''pasquil'', which derives from the Italian ''pasquinata'' (whenceas does the English “pasquinade,”term "[[pasquinade]]" for a satire or lampoon).” <ref>[http://www.forward.com/articles/7811/ Jewish Daily Forward: On Language by Philologos: A Nude Who Inspired Modesty]. Jewish Daily Forward, August 01, 2003.</ref> The term has also been explained as a Yiddish word mean "protest or cry for help".<ref name="YosefHagin2013"/> The word made its way "from Yiddish into the Hebrew of the [[Old Yishuv|Old Ashkenazi Yishuv]] in Jerusalem"<ref>[http://www.jpost.com/LocalIsrael/InJerusalem/Article.aspx?id=6992 Jerusalem Post: The Writing on the Wall by Rena Rossner]</ref> and was consequently adopted by [[Modern Hebrew]]."