Nochum Shtif
| Nochum Shtif | |
|---|---|
| Born | Nochum Shtif October 6, 1879 Rovno, Ukraine | 
| Died | April 7, 1933 (aged 53) Kiev, Ukraine | 
| Nationality | Russian | 
| Other names | Baal Dimion (pen name) | 
| Occupation(s) | Yiddish linguist and writer | 
Nohum Shtif (Yiddish: נחום שטיף; 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").