Mendele Mocher Sforim

Belarusian-Ukrainian Jewish author

Mendele Mocher Sforim (official name: Sholem Yankev Abramovich; January 2, 1836 – 8 December [O.S. 25 November] 1917) was a Belarusian Jewish author and one of the founders of modern Yiddish and Hebrew literature.

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