Yiddish daily press. Over thirty of Schaikewitz's plays were produced, first in Russia, then in New York, among them being one entitled Tisza-Eslar, on the subject of the blood accusation brought in the Hungarian town of that name. Others included Der Bel Tchuve (The Penitent) and Trefnyak (The Impure One). He was the subject of vitriolic attacks by S. Rabinovitz ("Sholem Aleichem"), who directed against him his Shomer's Mishpaṭ (Berdychev, 1888), reproaching him for his literary deficiencies. Schaikewitz successfully defended himself in a pamphlet entitled Yehi Or (New York, 1898), showing that his literary problem was to satisfy every plane of intelligence, from the householder to the servant-girl who could not understand the works of the later Yiddish writers. Jacob Adler later wrote of his melodramas that: "Nothing so crude as this can be found in Goldfaden... [but] the humor in Sheikevitch is more believable." References Hebrew-language writers 1849 births 1905 deaths Yiddish-language playwrights Jewish novelists Jewish American novelists Belarusian Jews American people of Belarusian-Jewish descent 19th-century American dramatists and playwrights People from Nesvizh