MENDELE MOCHER SFORIM

[Yid.= Mendele the book peddler]mĕnˈdələ môkhˈər sfôˈrĭm, pseud. of Sholem Yakov Abramovichshōˈləm yäˈkôv əbräməˈvĭch, 1836–1917, Yiddish novelist. Born in Minsk, and orphaned at 14, he traveled with beggars through Ukraine. His early writings were in Hebrew, but his later novels and short stories were written in Yiddish. He perfected a Yiddish prose style that greatly influenced later writers. Mendele translated many of his later works into Hebrew. Among his best-known writings, dealing with Jewish life in Russia, are Di kliatche [the mare] (1873) and The Travels of Benjamin the Third (1878). Strongly influenced by the secularizing trends of the Hebrew Enlightenment, or Haskalah, he attempted to influence the people to free themselves from the physical and intellectual restraints of the ghetto. He is considered the grandfather of modern Yiddish literature and the father of modern Hebrew literature.

See studies by D. Miron (1973) and T. L. Steinberg (1977).

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Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature
Book by Horatio Smith; Columbia university press, 1947
Subjects: Authors, European--20th Century--Biography--Dictionaries, European Literature--20th Century--Bio-Bibliography, European Literature--Dictionaries
...pp. 100-110 B. Q. M. Mendele mocher sforim pseud. of Sholem Yakob Abromowitz...which he worked for many years. Mendele is revered by Yiddish readers...European tongues. See: S. Niger, Mendele mocher sforim 1936 . S. L. Mendes, Catulle...
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A Treasury of Yiddish Stories
Book by Irving Howe, Eliezer Greenberg; Viking Press, 1954
Subjects: Short Stories, Yiddish--Translations Into English
Notes on the Authors Mendele Mocher Sforim 1837-1917 MENDELE MOCHER SFORIM "Mendele the Bookseller" was the pen name of Sholom Jacob Abramovitz, the patriarch of Yiddish literature...
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The Man Who Loved Laughter: The Story of Sholom Aleichem
Book by Louis Falstein, Adrianne Onderdonk Dudden; Jewish Publication Society of America, 1968
Subjects: Sholem Aleichem--1859-1916
...to bathe.The city had an additional virtue: Mendele Mocher Sforim lived there. Mendele, whom Sholom Aleichem in later years nicknamed...established him as a writer of the first rank. Mendele exerted a powerful influence on Sholom Aleichem...
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Encyclopedia of Literature
Book by Joseph T. Shipley; Philosophical Library, 1946
Subjects: Literature--Dictionaries, Indexes, Etc, Literature--History And Criticism
...Abailard, Peter. ABRAMOWITCH, SHALOM JACOB pseud. Mendele Mocher Sforim; Hebrew and Yiddish, 1836-1917 , began his literary...Hebrew language for Yiddish and emerged in 1864 as Mendele Mocher Sforim, the initerant book peddler who makes his rounds...
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Jews and Violence: Images, Ideologies, Realities
Book by Peter Y. Medding; Oxford University Press, 2002
Subjects: Jews--Social Conditions--20th Century, Judaism And State--History--20th Century, Violence--History--20th Century, Violence--Israel, Violence--Religious Aspects--Judaism
...hasiporet haivrit Jerusalem: 1987 , 70 86. 8 Mendele Moykher Sforim, Di kliatshe Vilna: 1873 . Trans. as The Mare...Intellectual and the Jews: The Case of Di kliatshe by Mendele Mocher Sforim, Daniel Koshland Memorial Lecture of Congregation...
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Difficult Passengers: Jews and Poetry
Journal article by Ross Bradshaw; European Judaism, Vol. 37, 2004
Subjects: Jewish poetry--Criticism and interpretation, Lazarus, Emma--Works, Levi, Primo--Works, Levy, Amy--Works, Poets--Works
...Oysielekh vern verter makn zatsn--mendele neshome (4) (trans: Little...to make sentences, the soul of Mendele Mocher Sforim) So, with these pieces of fluff...Schonhaut Hirshan, found on the Mendele e-zine vol 09.027. (5...
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Max Weber's Jewish Paintings
Journal article by Matthew Baigell; American Jewish History, Vol. 88, 2000
Subjects: American Jews, American painters--Criticism and interpretation, Art, Jewish art and symbolism--Criticism and interpretation, Jewish art--Criticism and interpretation, Jewish life--Portrayals, Jewish symbolism--Criticism and interpretation, Jewish way of life--Portrayals, Jews, American, Painters, American--Criticism and interpretation, Weber, Max (Artist)--Religious aspects
...Baigell translated the poem.. In the fifth line, the Jewish words for book peddler, mocher sforim, might be a play on the name, Mendele Moche Sforim (Mendele the Book Peddler, the pseudonym of one of the first Yiddish novelists, Sholem Yankev...


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Craft and Commerce: Moshe the Bookseller
Magazine article by Mark I. Pinsky; Tikkun, Vol. 17, May/Jun 2002
Subjects: Art, Art dealers, Auctions, Sales
...didnt want to be in the retail business." The Jewish writer Sholem Yakov Abramovich took as his pen name Mendele Mocher Sforim--"Mendele the Book Seller." An orphan, he lived and traveled with beggars and brigands in Ukraine as a young teenager...


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encyclopedia articles on: Mendele Mocher Sforim  - 4 results

 
 
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Mendele Mocher Sforim
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MENDELE MOCHER SFORIM Yid.= Mendele the book peddlermen d l mokh r sfo rim, pseud. of Sholem Yakov...a Yiddish prose style that greatly influenced later writers. Mendele translated many of his later works into Hebrew. Among his best...
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Hebrew Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Joseph Halevy, the poet Jehuda (Leon) Gordon , and the novelist Solomon Yakob Abramovich, whose pseudonym was Mendele mocher sforim . Zionism and Literature in Israel The rise of Zionism , particularly reflected in the writings of Ahad Ha-am...
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Yiddish Language
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...that modern Yiddish literature began in 1864 with the publication of Das Kleyne Mentshele ( The Little Man ) by Mendele mocher sforim . Among the best-known writers in Yiddish literature are Sholem Aleichem , I. L. Peretz , Isaac Meier Dik...
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Abramovich, Sholem Yakov
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ABRAMOVICH, SHOLEM YAKOV see Mendele mocher sforim . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.


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