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Also Known As Mendele Mokher Sforim • Mendele Moykher Seforim • Mendele Moykher Sefarim • Mendele Mocher Sforim • S. Y. Abramovitsh • Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh
Born November 20, 1835 • Russia
Died December 8, 1917 (aged 82) • Odesa • Ukraine
Notable Works “The Parasite” • “The Travels and Adventures of Benjamin the Third”
Sholem Aleichem
Sholem Aleichem
Yiddish author
poster advertising The Tailor Becomes a Storekeeper
David Pinski
Yiddish author
Roark Bradford
American author
Aleksandr Pushkin
Aleksandr Pushkin
Russian author
Ivan Turgenev
Ivan Turgenev
Russian author
Maxim Gorky
Maxim Gorky
Russian writer
Nikolay Gogol
Nikolay Gogol
Ukrainian-born writer
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Russian author
Bulgakov, c. 1932
Mikhail Bulgakov
Russian author
Andreyev, Leonid Nikolayevich
Leonid Andreyev
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Mikhail Yevgrafovich, Count Saltykov
Russian author
Goldfaden, Avrom
Avrom Goldfaden
Jewish author
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German author
Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish writer
Voltaire
Voltaire
French philosopher and author
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
James Joyce
James Joyce
Irish author
Samuel Beckett, 1965
Samuel Beckett
Irish author
Henry James
Henry James
American writer
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
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