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Mendele Mocher Sforim

1835 - 1917

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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 [N.S.], Odessa), born Sholem Yankev Abramovich (Yiddish: שלום יעקבֿ אַבראַמאָװיטש‎, Russian: Соломон Моисеевич Абрамович, romanized: Solomon Moiseyevich 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mendele Mocher Sforim is the 1,431st most popular writer (down from 1,393rd in 2019), the 40th most popular biography from Belarus (up from 42nd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Belarusian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mendele Mocher Sforim ranks 1,431 out of 7,302. Before him are Sharafkhan Bidlisi, Callinus, Poul Anderson, Philippe Soupault, Sanu Sharma, and Maryse Condé. After him are Ruth Rendell, Samuel ibn Naghrillah, Vivant Denon, Rainis, Gunnar Gunnarsson, and Tarjei Vesaas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, Mendele Mocher Sforim ranks 29. Before him are Hijikata Toshizō, John La Farge, Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova, Adolph Wagner, Elisha Gray, and Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany. After him are Sai Baba of Shirdi, Alexandrine Tinné, Shoqan Walikhanov, Simon Newcomb, Iwasaki Yatarō, and Tomás Estrada Palma. Among people deceased in 1917, Mendele Mocher Sforim ranks 31. Before him are Ranavalona III, Léon Bloy, Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, Adolph Wagner, Hugo Simberg, and Lucien Petit-Breton. After him are Maximilian von Prittwitz, Manuel de Arriaga, Dadabhai Naoroji, Gustav von Schmoller, Carolus-Duran, and Yevgeni Ivanovich Alekseyev.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Mendele Mocher Sforim ranks 40 out of 368. Before him are Marek Edelman (1922), Nikolay Krestinsky (1883), Rogneda of Polotsk (966), Elena Glinskaya (1510), Bronislava Nijinska (1891), and Ivan Yakubovsky (1912). After him are Aleksei Antonov (1896), Yakov Zeldovich (1914), Salomon Maimon (1754), Francysk Skaryna (1486), Shneur Zalman of Liadi (1745), and Eliza Orzeszkowa (1841).

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Among WRITERS In Belarus

Among writers born in Belarus, Mendele Mocher Sforim ranks 4. Before him are Ryszard Kapuściński (1932), Yanka Kupala (1882), and Yakub Kolas (1882). After him are Eliza Orzeszkowa (1841), S. Ansky (1863), Oscar Milosz (1877), Aleksander Chodźko (1804), Bella Rosenfeld (1889), Vasil Bykaŭ (1924), Uladzimir Karatkievich (1930), and Ales Adamovich (1927).

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