Sholem Aleichem
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. 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.
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| Born | Sholem Rabinovich March 2 [O.S. February 18] 1859 Pereiaslav, Russian Empire |
| Died | May 13, 1916 (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.
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