mendele

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Mendele Moykher Sforim Mendele Mokher Sefarim Mendele the Book Peddler
{i} male first name (Yiddish)

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Mendele Mocher Sefarim
pen name of Shalom Yaacov Abramovitch (1835-1917), prominent Hebrew author
Mendele Moykher Sforim
or Mendele Mokher Sefarim orig. Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh (Yiddish; "Mendele the Book Peddler") born Nov. 20, 1835, Kopyl, near Minsk, Russia died Dec. 8, 1917, Odessa Russian author. He lived much of his life in Ukraine, becoming a rabbi and head of a traditional school (Talmud Torah) at Odessa. His stories, written with lively humour and gentle satire, are invaluable in the study of Jewish life in Eastern Europe at the time when its traditional structure was giving way. His greatest work is The Travels and Adventures of Benjamin the Third (1875), a panorama of Jewish life in Russia. He is considered the founder of both modern Yiddish and modern Hebrew narrative literature and the creator of modern literary Yiddish