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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,...
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    southern Russian Empire, drawn by his admiration for authors such as Mendele Mocher Sforim and Ahad Ha'am. There, Bialik studied Russian and German language...
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    Maslovskaya, poet Janka Maur Ivan Melezh Alexander S. Potupa Ryhor Reles Mendele Mocher Sforim, founder of modern Yiddish and modern Hebrew literature Ivan Shamiakin...
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    Carmel Cemetery in Queens, New York City. Like his contemporaries Mendele Mocher Sforim, I.L. Peretz, and Jacob Dinezon, Sholem Rabinovitch started writing...
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    traveler 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...
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    son of poet Mikhail Abramovich and grandson of the Yiddish writer Mendele Mocher Sforim. He studied at the Technische Hochschule in Charlottenburg (now...
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    "jargon" of no literary value into an accepted artistic language. Mendele Mocher Sforim, Sholem Aleichem, and I.L. Peretz are now seen as the basis for...
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    Viacheslav Mishchenko (born 1964), Ukrainian photo artist and painter Mendele Mocher Sforim, pen name of Sholem Yankev Abramovich, Jewish author and one of...
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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...
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  • and The Man of the Air; Adventures of Benjamin the Third after Mendele Mocher Sforim; Abraham Goldfaden's The Sorceress (in collaboration with Joseph...
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    Koschei is the main guest character. (see Red Menace (Grimm)) In Mendele Mocher Sforim's allegorical Yiddish novel Di Klatsche (The Nag; 1873), Koschei...
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  • professor Orit 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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    In Munich, the art museum Alte Pinakothek opened. January 2 – Mendele Mocher Sforim, Russian Yiddish writer (d. 1917) January 8 – Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema...
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    figure. However, in nineteenth century works by writers such as Mendele Mocher Sforim and Sholem Aleichem they were also portrayed as great artists and...
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    art, theatre, and film, including such examples as the writing of Mendele Mocher Sforim, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Sholem Aleichem. Sholem Aleichem's Tevye...
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    famous 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...
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    Haim Nahman Bialik; Berdychiv, where one can trace the life of Mendele Mocher Sforim; Rivne, where one can follow the course of Amos Oz; Buchach – the...
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  • 1914 – Maximilian von Spee, Danish-German admiral (b. 1861) 1917 – Mendele Mocher Sforim, Russian author (b. 1836) 1918 – Josip Stadler, Bosnian Catholic...
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  • Yiddish writers. It published the first Yiddish-language fiction of Mendele Mocher Sforim, a novella called Dos kleine mentshele (The Little Man), with the...
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    commentator, 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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  • Frederick A. Johnson, American banker and politician (d. 1893) 1836 – Mendele Mocher Sforim, Russian author (d. 1917) 1836 – Queen Emma of Hawaii (d. 1885)...
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    estimates the community of Jews in Belarus at 70,000. Marc Chagall, Mendele Mocher Sforim, Chaim Weizmann and Menachem Begin were born in Belarus. By the...
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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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    usually refers to craftsmen and professionals, for instance as in Mendele Mocher Sforim's coinage סמרטוטר smartutár 'rag-dealer'." Blending may occur with...
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  • the son 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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  • (b. 1882) Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (b. 1840) December 8 – Mendele Mocher Sforim, Russian Yiddish, Hebrew writer (b. 1836) December 10 – Sir Mackenzie...
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    The novel is dedicated to Mendele Mocher Sforim to whom the author wrote a letter with the dedication, addressing to Mendele "dear grandfather". The novel...
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  • will be incorporated into his novel Erewhon (1872). November – Mendele Mocher Sforim's first Yiddish language story, "Dos Kleine Menshele" (The Little...
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  • Natalya Sats, playwright (Jewish father) Zoya Semenduyeva, poet Mendele Mocher Sforim, founder of modern Yiddish and modern Hebrew literature Viktor Shklovsky...
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    and Isaac Bashevis Singer's The Fools of Chelm and Their History Mendele Mocher Sforim invented three shtetls inhabited by naive, luckless Jews, reminiscent...
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