Avrom Ber Gotlober
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Avrom Ber Gotlober, also known by the pen names Abag and Mahalalel, was a Russian Maskilic writer, poet, playwright, historian, journalist and educator. His first collection was published in 1835.
Avrom Ber Gotlober
Mendele Mocher Sforim
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Mendele Mocher Sforim was a Belarusian Jewish author and one of the founders of modern Yiddish and Hebrew literature.
Avrom Ber Gotlober
…Kamenetz-Podolsk, he was transferred to a similar position in his native city, where he remained for about eleven years. Among Gotlober's students were Mendele Mocher Sforim, Sholom Aleichem, and Abraham Goldfaden. In 1865 he became a teacher in the rabbinical school in Zhitomir, and remained there until it was closed by…
Mendele Mocher Sforim
The Odessa literary group in 1916; from left to right: Yehoshua Ravnitzky (1859-1944), Shloyme Ansky, Mendele, Hayim N. Bialik, Simon Frug.