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Nahum Meir was born on December 18, 1849 in Nesvizh (Government of Minsk), Russia (now Belarus), a son of Isaac and Hodie Goldberg Shaikewitz. The name Schomer, his nom de plume, he afterwards adopted also as a family name, under which his surviving children in the United States are known.
His orthodox parents intended him for the rabbinate, but his own inclinations led him into other fields.
Schomer was educated at home and at the famous Talmudic seminary of Volozhin.
In Pinsk Schomer attempted to establish himself as a merchant. Here he made his literary debut in Hebrew journals with stories, historical sketches, and popular scientific articles, but soon relinquished Hebrew in favor of the common vernacular of the Jewish masses, the Yiddish.
Shortly after his marriage he became manager of his uncle's business in Wilna, which necessitated some traveling. When he visited Roumania and in Bucharest came in contact with the Yiddish theatre, he resolved to become a dramatic author. Moving to Odessa, he became a theatrical manager and playwright, writing Lebensbilder, dramas of current life, the first in this genre to be produced in the Yiddish language. After the Yiddish theatre was closed in Russia by government decree he emigrated in 1889 to New York.
Over thirty of his plays were produced in Russia and later in the United States. He also experimented in New York as editor and publisher of several magazines. At the time when he began to write, the Jews of the great ghettos in Russia, Lithuania, and Poland were shut up in their communities.
His novels were partly historical, partly reflections of the Jewish life of his immediate surroundings and of small towns and villages, and to a large extent imitations of the French and German "Schundroman. " As his language was simple, near to that spoken by the common people, his novels became so popular that in the span of little more than a decade his readers numbered hundreds of thousands and his name was a household word.
With the development of the Yiddish literature and the springing up of more gifted talents, Schomer was the subject of violent attacks by his contemporaries, who accused him of serious literary deficiencies and of a deleterious effect upon the popular taste. But in spite of this harsh criticism he is to be credited with valuable services to Jewish life and literature.
He died in 1905 in New York City.
Nahum Meir Schomer was an extremely prolific writer. In addition to fifteen novels in Hebrew he was the author of over two hundred in Yiddish, some of which are of bulky proportions; many others appeared in the Yiddish dailies. His place in Yiddish literature is that of a pioneer who sensed the need of the masses for a new kind of reading matter to replace the older folk-tales and morality chapbooks. He helped to develop the habit of reading among the Yiddish-speaking masses, to mitigate the fanaticism that prevailed in small rural and urban communities, and to introduce to them entirely new conceptions of life. His famous novels: Mumar le-Hak'is (1879); Kewiyah Taḥat Kewiyah and Ṭa'ut Goi (1880); and Ha-Niddaḥat (1886; 1887), Ḳayin (1887).
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As a youngster Schomer was known as a clever story-teller, with a fertile and inexhaustible imagination which he was to draw on later in his chosen vocation.
At the age of twenty Schomer married to Dinah Bercinsky in Pinsk.
