Nahum Meir Schaikewitz

Nahum Meïr Schaikewitz, also known by his pseudonym "Shomer" (December 18, 1849 in Nesvizh, Russian Empire – 25 November 1905 in New York City) was a Yiddish and Hebrew novelist and playwright. Although he was very popular in his time and a giant in Yiddish literature, sometimes styled the "Dumas of Yiddish literature", he was significantly damaged by Sholem Aleichem, who derided his plotting as extravagantly artificial and improbable, characteristic of a cheap potboiler.

His works have sometimes been referred to as the shund literature, he is sometimes named the pioneer of this type of literature.

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