Mendele Mocher Sforim

Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh, known as Mendele Moykher Sforim, Mendele the book peddler, was born in 1836 in Kapyl, in Belarus. After the yeshivas of Slutsk and Vilna, he wandered for a few years in Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine, taught in Kamianets-Podilskyi and settled in 1858 in Berdychiv. He then lived in Zhytomyr, then from 1881 headed the Talmud Torah of Odessa, where he died on 8 December 1917. He came to literature through Hebrew, wrote mainly in Yiddish, then rewrote his books in Hebrew. Sholem Aleichem called him the grandfather of Yiddish literature.

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• NovelThe Brief Travels of Benjamin the Thirdקיצור מסעות בנימין השלישיMendele Mocher Sforim · 1878Literature