Written in Yiddish.
Samuel Niger was the pseudonym of Samuel Charney (1883-1955) . After being imprisoned by Polish legionaires in 1919, Niger left for the United States. In New York, he worked for Der Tog, a Yiddish daily; beginning in 1920, he worked for the paper for 35 years, “becoming the most revered and feared Yiddish critic of his generation. ” Outside of strictly literary work, Niger worked with the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research from its inception, a and helped found the Congress for Jewish Culture.
This is his work on Mendele Mokher Sforim, widely regarded as the grandfather of Yiddish literature.
