Nochum Shtif
Nohum Shtif (; 1879,
Rovno – 1933,
Kiev), was a Jewish linguist, literary historian, publisher, translator, and philologist of the
Yiddish language and social activist. In his early years he wrote under the pen name ''Baal Dimion'' (or ''Bal-Dimyen'', "Master of Imagination").
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