Sholem Aleichem
Russian Jewish author and playwright / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich (Russian: Соломон Наумович Рабинович; March 2 [O.S. February 18] 1859 – May 13, 1916), better known under his pen name Sholem Aleichem (Yiddish and Hebrew: שלום עליכם, also spelled שאָלעם־אלייכעם in Soviet Yiddish, [ˈʃɔləm aˈlɛjxəm]; Russian and Ukrainian: Шо́лом-Але́йхем), was a Yiddish author and playwright who lived in the Russian Empire and in the United States.[1] The 1964 musical Fiddler on the Roof, based on Aleichem's stories about Tevye the Dairyman, was the first commercially successful English-language stage production about Jewish life in Eastern Europe.
Sholem Aleichem | |
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Born | Solomon Rabinovich March 2 [O.S. February 18] 1859 Pereiaslav, Russian Empire |
Died | May 13, 1916(1916-05-13) (aged 57) New York City, U.S. |
Pen name | Sholem Aleichem (Yiddish: שלום עליכם) |
Occupation | Writer |
Language | Yiddish |
Genre | Novels, short stories, plays |
Literary movement | Yiddish revival |
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The Hebrew phrase שלום עליכם (shalom aleichem) literally means "[May] peace [be] upon you!", and is a greeting in traditional Hebrew and Yiddish.[2]