SHOLEM ALEICHEM


Meaning of SHOLEM ALEICHEM in English

orig. Sholem Yakov Rabinowitz

born Feb. 18, 1859, Pereyaslav, Russia

died May 13, 1916, New York, N.Y., U.S.

Russian writer.

Drawn to writing as a youth, he became a private tutor at age 17 and later served as a government rabbi. Beginning in 1883 he published more than 40 widely translated volumes of novels, stories, and plays in Yiddish. English translations from his 14-volume collected works include Jewish Children and The Old Country . His best-known character, Tevye the dairyman, was the subject of a volume of short stories that later was the basis for the musical Fiddler on the Roof (1964).

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