deaths
December 8, 1917
Mendele Mocher Sforim, Russian author (born 1836)
Mendele Mocher Sforim
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.