1/1 | Birthday of Mendele Moykher Sforim
Today in Yiddishkayt… January 1 Birthday of Sholem-Yankev Abramovitch / Mendele Moykher-Sforim The man Sholem Aleichem dubbed “the Grandfather” of Yiddish literature, Sholem-Yankev Abramovitch, also known as Mendele Moykher-Sforim was born on the first day of 1837 (according to the Western, Gregorian calendar) in Kapulye (today Капыль, Belarus). In his Notes toward my Biography, Mendele writes: “My birthday was recorded nowhere. But my general sense is that I was born in 1836 and my family set the date as the 20th of December [according to the Old Style calendar]....
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