About Mendel Osherowitch
Lived 1888 – 1965 (aged 77). Mendel Osherowitch was a journalist, prose writer, playwright and memoirist.
Mendel Osherowitch (January 14, 1888 – April 16, 1965) was a Podilia-born American Yiddish journalist, novelist, historian, and translator. He wrote for The Forward from 1914 to 1965, and he authored many books, including three novels and a book about Yiddish theatre.
His two-volume Yidn in Uḳraine was printed posthumously but never sent to bookstores. The Yiddish Book Center found the printed copies sitting in a fish market in 1980 and distributed them to libraries.
His book on the Holodomor was translated into English in 2020.
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Who was Mendel Osherowitch?
yiddish writer
When was Mendel Osherowitch born?
Mendel Osherowitch was born on 14 January 1888 in Trostianets.
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Mendel Osherowitch died on 16 April 1965 in New York City.
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Mendel Osherowitch was a journalist, prose writer, playwright and memoirist.
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