Mendele Mocher Sforim

Writer
Born
January 2, 1839
Died
December 8, 1917

Mendele Mocher Sforim was born on 2 January 1839 in Kopyl, Minsk Governorate, Russian Empire [now Kapyl, Minsk Voblast, Belarus]. He was a writer, known for The Light Ahead (1939) and King of Beggars (2007). He died on 8 December 1917 in Odesa, Ukraine.