ABRAMOWITSCH, SHALOM JACOB (SEPHORIM, MENDEL MOCHER)

(1836-1917)

Russian Hebrew and Yiddish author. He was born in Belorussia. WithHayyim Nahman BialikandYehoshua Hana Ravnitzky, he translated the Pentateuch into Yiddish; he also wrote short stories. He is the father of prose liter-ature in Hebrew and Yiddish.