| |
Mendele Mocher Sforim -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | He was born to a poor family in Kopyl near (The capital of Belarus and of the Commonwealth of Independent States) Minsk and lost his father, Chaim Moyshe Broyde, shortly after he was ((Judaism) an initiation ceremony marking the 13th birthday of a Jewish boy and signifying the beginning of religious responsibility) bar mitzvahed. |
| | He is considered by many to be the "grandfather of Yiddish literature"; his style in both Hebrew and Yiddish has strongly influenced several generations of later writers. |
| | Sol Liptzin writes that in his early Yiddish narratives, Mendele "wanted to be useful to his people rather than gain literary laurels". |
| www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/me/mendele_mocher_sforim.htm (434 words) |
