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Shvaytser, Benyomen
1833–1886
He was born in Dvort (Warta), Poland, descended from a Hassidic family. He attended religious elementary school and yeshiva, became a follower of the Jewish Enlightenment, went through a variety of transformations, and eventually converted to Christianity in 1885.
In Yiddish he published a satirical story: Yekele Kundas (Yekele the Joker) (1878), under the pen name Abash.
Source: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 4.
שװײַצער, בנימין
1833 – 1886
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