Lamed Shapiro

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Lamed Shapiro

American author

Also known as: Levi Yeshue Shapiro

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Yiddish literature
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L. Shapiro was an important prose stylist, born in the Kiev region, who came in contact with Peretz’s circle in Warsaw. He met Peretz in 1896, moved to Warsaw in 1903, and began publishing short fiction in 1904. Following the pogroms of 1905, Shapiro immigrated…
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L. Shapiro was an important prose stylist, born in the Kiev region, who came in contact with Peretz’s circle in Warsaw. He met Peretz in 1896, moved to Warsaw in 1903, and began publishing short fiction in 1904. Following the pogroms of 1905, Shapiro immigrated…
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