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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mendele Mocher Sforim has received more than 98,569 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Mendele Mocher Sforim is the 1,394th most popular writer (up from 1,629th in 2019), the 42nd most popular biography from Belarus (up from 53rd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Belarusian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mendele Mocher Sforim ranks 1,394 out of 7,302. Before him are Rodolphe Töpffer, Don DeLillo, François de Malherbe, Robin Hobb, Magda Szabó, and Dnyaneshwar. After him are Pehr Henrik Ling, Fulcher of Chartres, César Vallejo, Sima Xiangru, Siegfried Lenz, and Robert Bloch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, Mendele Mocher Sforim ranks 29. Before him are Iwasaki Yatarō, Adolph Wagner, Hijikata Toshizō, Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Shoqan Walikhanov, and Elisha Gray. After him are Alexander Agassiz, Simon Newcomb, Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova, Matsukata Masayoshi, Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, and Alexandrine Tinné. Among people deceased in 1917, Mendele Mocher Sforim ranks 30. Before him are Léon Bloy, Jean Gaston Darboux, Adolph Wagner, Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, Hugo Simberg, and Lucien Petit-Breton. After him are Émile Boirac, Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia, Maximilian von Prittwitz, Gustav von Schmoller, Kristian Birkeland, and Manuel de Arriaga.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Mendele Mocher Sforim ranks 42 out of 368. Before him are Rogneda of Polotsk (966), Nikolay Krestinsky (1883), Vilna Gaon (1720), Ivan Yakubovsky (1912), Shneur Zalman of Liadi (1745), and Aleksei Antonov (1896). After him are Bronislava Nijinska (1891), Otto Schmidt (1891), Mikołaj "the Black" Radziwiłł (1515), Paul Baran (1926), Euphrosyne of Polotsk (1110), and Ignacy Domeyko (1802).

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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 Vasil Bykaŭ (1924), Eliza Orzeszkowa (1841), S. Ansky (1863), Oscar Milosz (1877), Aleksander Chodźko (1804), Uladzimir Karatkievich (1930), Maksim Bahdanovič (1891), and Bella Rosenfeld (1889).

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