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    Mendele Mocher Sforim (Yiddish: מענדעלע מוכר ספֿרים‎, Hebrew: מנדלי מוכר ספרים; lit. "Mendele the book peddler"; January 2, 1836, Kapyl – December 8, 1917...
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    Sifrei Kodesh (redirect from Sforim)
    Sifrei Kodesh (Hebrew: ספרי קודש, lit. 'Holy books'), commonly referred to as sefarim (Hebrew: ספרים, lit. 'books'), or in its singular form, sefer, are...
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    century. Some of the leading founders of this movement were Mendele Moykher-Sforim (1836–1917), I. L. Peretz (1852–1915), and Sholem Aleichem (1859–1916)....
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    20th centuries are Sholem Yankev Abramovitch, writing as Mendele Mocher Sforim; Sholem Rabinovitsh, widely known as Sholem Aleichem, whose stories about...
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    Russian Empire, drawn by his admiration for authors such as Mendele Mocher Sforim and Ahad Ha'am. There, Bialik studied Russian and German language and literature...
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  • Binyamin Ha-Shelishi) is a satirical work from the writer Mendele Mocher Sforim. The work was published first in the year 1878 in Yiddish, and, from then...
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    inspired by his admiration for authors such as and Ahad Ha'am Mendele Mocher Sforim and worked there from the 1890s to 1911. He was commonly known as the national...
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    guest of Yiddish writer and editor David Frishman and author Mendele Mocher Sforim. Litman returned to performing in Vienna in 1928, mapping out a route that...
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  • Abramovitz, Israeli Olympic athlete S. Y. Abramovitz aka Mendele Mocher Sforim (1836–1917), Jewish author from Belarus Abramowitz Chaim Zanvl Abramowitz...
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    the community of Jews in Belarus at 70,000. Marc Chagall, Mendele Mocher Sforim, Chaim Weizmann and Menachem Begin were born in Belarus. In the second half...
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    from left to right: Yehoshua Hana Rawnitzki, Shloyme Ansky, Mendele M. Sforim, Hayim N. Bialik, Simon Frug. Born Simeon Samuel Grigoryevich Frug (1860-11-15)15...
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    refers to craftsmen and professionals, for instance as in Mendele Mocher Sforim's coinage סמרטוטר smartutár 'rag-dealer'." Blending may occur with an error...
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    and author, known as Benjamin II. One of the main works of Mendele Mocher Sforim, a major 19th-century Russian Jewish writer, is the 1878 Masoes Benyomen...
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  • Chelm" popularized by Isaac Bashevis Singer and Kabtzansk of Mendele Mocher Sforim. A detailed glimpse at Voronkov, the prototype of Kasrilevka, may be found...
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    work was the 1876 epic Qotzo shel Yodh (Tittle of a Jot). Mendele Mocher Sforim was during his youth a Maskilic writer but from his 1886 Beseter ra'am (Hebrew:...
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    Mendele Mocher Sforim, Sholem Aleichem, Mordechai Ben Ami, and Hayim Nahman Bialik in Odesa, 1910...
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  • of Mendele Mocher Sforim. Mikhail Abramovich was born in Berditchev to Pesya (née Levin) and S. Y. Abramovich (Mendele Mocher Sforim). He was educated...
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  • Maximilian von Spee, Danish-German admiral (b. 1861) 1917 – Mendele Mocher Sforim, Russian author (b. 1836) 1918 – Josip Stadler, Bosnian Catholic archbishop...
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    theatre, and film, including such examples as the writing of Mendele Mocher Sforim, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Sholem Aleichem. Sholem Aleichem's Tevye the...
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    retellings of Schildbürger stories and their imitations. Mendele Mocher Sforim set some of his stories in a fictional town of Glupsk ("Foolstown", from...
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  • fun der yidisher literaturgeshikhte fun di onheybn biz Mendele Moykher-Sforim, 1928. Das Jiddische Wissenschaftliche Institut ("Jiwo") die wissenschaftliche...
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    Odessa writers. From left to right: Y. Ravnitzki, An-sky, Mendele Mocher Sforim, H. N. Bialik, S. Frug. Published in Simon Dubnow's newspaper in 1916...
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    Mishchenko (born 1964), Ukrainian photo artist and painter Mendele Mocher Sforim, pen name of Sholem Yankev Abramovich, Jewish author and one of the founders...
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    Cemetery in Queens, New York City. Like his contemporaries Mendele Mocher Sforim, I.L. Peretz, and Jacob Dinezon, Sholem Rabinovitch started writing in Hebrew...
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    repertoire features the best works by Abraham Goldfaden, Mendele-Moykher Sforim, Sholom Aleichem, Isaac Leib Peretz and Jacob Gordin. In 1970–2014, the...
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  • fictional character from short story by Maria Konopnicka Mendele Mocher Sforim (1836-1917), Yiddish author, born as Sholem Yankev Abramovich Mendel Portugali...
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    best known as the Rabbi in Fiddler on the Roof; born here. Mendele Mocher Sforim (1836–1917), Jewish author; lived here Moses Wilhelm Shapira (1830–1884)...
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    However, in nineteenth century works by writers such as Mendele Mocher Sforim and Sholem Aleichem they were also portrayed as great artists and virtuosos...
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    remained for about eleven years. Among Gotlober's students were Mendele Mocher Sforim, Sholom Aleichem, and Abraham Goldfaden.[citation needed] In 1865 he became...
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    Abramovitsh introduced his alter ego, the character of Mendele Moykher Sforim ("Mendel the Book Peddler"), the character who narrates this and many succeeding...
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