Mendele Mocher Sforim, Russian author (born 1836)

Mendele Mocher Sforim

Belarusian-Ukrainian Jewish author

Mendele Mocher Sforim, born Sholem Yankev Abramovich or S. J. Abramowitch, was a Jewish author and one of the founders of modern Yiddish and Hebrew literature. His name was variously transliterated as Moykher, Sfarim, Seforim, etc.