Avrom Ber Gotlober, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Ukrainian writer and historian
Date of Birth: 14-Jan-1811
Place of Birth: Starokostiantyniv, Khmelnytsky Oblast, Ukraine
Date of Death: 12-Apr-1899
Profession: writer, poet, playwright, translator, author, journalist
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Avrom Ber Gotlober
- Avrom Ber Gotlober (January 14, 1811, Starokonstantinov, Volhynia – April 12, 1899, Bialystok) was a Jewish writer, poet, playwright, historian, journalist and educator from the Russian Empire.
- He mostly wrote in Hebrew, but also wrote poetry and dramas in Yiddish.
- His first collection was published in 1835. Gotlober's last name is often transliterated as Gottlober.
- He was widely known by his initials, ABG, which in Hebrew and Yiddish are the first three letters, alef-bet-giml. ABG was a maskil, a leader in the haskalah, the nineteenth-century Jewish Enlightenment in Russia and Eastern Europe.
- While his literary output is no longer widely known, he was important for several reasons: As a teacher in the state-sponsored schools for Jews, where he taught and influenced two founders of Yiddish literature: Mendele Mocher Sforim, whom Sholom Aleichem called "the zeyde (grandfather) of us all", and Abraham Goldfaden, the founder of the professional Yiddish theater. As a historian who wrote histories of the Karaites (Bikoret le-toldot ha-Karaim) and of the Hasidism and Kabbalah (Toldot ha-Kabalah veha-Hasidut) that are still cited by scholars. As a social observer and memoirist, who had the fortune to live long enough to describe the social and political conditions of the 1820s and 1830s for audiences of the 1880s.
- Scholars widely cite his memoirs (Zikhronot u-masaot, or Memoirs and Travels), his contribution to Sholom Aleichem's Yudishe Folks-Bibliothek, and his articles in his own periodical Ha-Boker Or (The Morning Light) and in other periodicals.
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