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Sholem Aleichem

  • Scholem Alejchem
  • Соломон Наумович Рабинович
  • Solomon Rabinovich
  • שלום עליכם
  • Cholem Aleikhem
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Aleichem, Sholem
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Person
Gender
Male
Date of birth
1859-03-02
Place of birth
Kyïvs'ka Oblast'
Date of death
1916-05-13
Place of death
New York

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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, 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.

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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