DICK, ISAAC MEIR

(1814-93)

   Polish Yiddish author. He was born in Vilna. As an exponent of the Haskalah, he advocated reforms in Jewish life. He was the first popular writer of Yiddish fiction, producing more than 300 stories and short novels, which introduced sentimental and realistic story-telling into Yiddish literature. He also popularized knowledge of the Bible, wrote on the Passover Haggadah, and composed a popular version of the Shulhan Arukh.