 He also wrote in Hebrew, including the outstanding Talmudic parody, “Masseket Aniyyut” (“Tractate Poverty”).Modern Yiddish literature is generally dated to the publication in 1864 of Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh’s novel "Dos kleyne mentshele" ("The Little Person").Abramovitsh had previously written in Hebrew, the language in which many proponents of the Haskalah communicated with each other, until this publication.