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Nahum Meir Schaikewitz

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Yiddish writer (1849-1905)

WritersLived 1849 to 1905 · aged 56
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Nahum Meïr Schaikewitz, also known by his pseudonym "Shomer" was a Yiddish and Hebrew novelist and playwright.

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Nahum Meïr Schaikewitz, also known by his pseudonym "Shomer" was a Yiddish and Hebrew novelist and playwright. Although he was very popular in his time and a giant in Yiddish literature, sometimes styled the "Dumas of Yiddish literature", he was significantly damaged by Sholem Aleichem, who derided his plotting as extravagantly artificial and improbable, characteristic of a cheap potboiler.

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Lived 1849 to 1905 · aged 56
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