His lifetime friend Jacob (Yankev) Dinezon wrote several novels. Dinezon began publishing in Yiddish in 1877, before Peretz, and he was in contact with writers such as Isaac Meir Dik in Vilna. His first published novel, Haneʾehovim ve-haneʿimim oder der shvartser yungermantshik (1877; “The Beloved and the Pleasant; or, The…
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