Abramowitsch, Shalom Jacob (Sephorim, Mendel Mocher)

(1836-1917)

   Russian Hebrew and Yiddish author. He was born in Belorussia. With Hayyim Nahman Bialik and Yehoshua 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.