Nochum Shtif

Nochum Shtif
Born
Nochum Shtif

(1879-10-06)October 6, 1879
Rovno, Ukraine
DiedApril 7, 1933(1933-04-07) (aged 53)
Kiev, Ukraine
NationalityRussian
Other namesBaal 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").