His later work became more humane and less satiric , starting with '' Fishke der Krumer '' ( '' פישקע דער קרומער '' ; written 1868-1888 ) &ndash; which was adapted as a film of the same title in 1939 ( known in English as '' The Light Ahead '' ) &ndash; and continuing with the unfinished '' Masoes Benyomin Hashlishi '' ( '' מסעות בנימין השלישי '' ; The Travels of Benjamin III ; 1878 ) , something of a Jewish '' Don Quixote '' . ( The title is a reference to the well-known travel book of the Medieval Spanish-Jewish traveller Benjamin of Tudela . ) In 1938 , this work was adapted by as a play for the Jüdischer Kulturbund in Germany , and performed there shortly after Kristallnacht ( the Night of Broken Glass ) , in November of that year
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
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