Sholem Aleichem
Jewish writer and playwright of Yiddish, who worked in Russian Empire, Switzerland, Germany and the United States (1859-1916)
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Sholem Aleichem was a Yiddish writer and playwright who lived from 1859 to 1916 and worked across the Jewish communities of the Russian Empire, Switzerland, Germany, and the United States. He is remembered as an important figure in Yiddish literature, bringing the language and stories of Eastern European Jewish life to a wide audience during a transformative period for Jewish culture.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 5 March 1859
- Died
- 13 May 1916
- Works
- 883
Top works
- Shṿer tsu zayn a Yid (der bluṭiger shpas)
- Odessa
- Zaczarowany krawiec
- Moṭel Peysi dem khazns
- Sḳitsen un bilder
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Film & TV
Writing · Perevalsk, Russian Empire
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Listeners · Last.fm
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Works in European collections
17 objects attributed to Sholem Aleichem, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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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 Jewish author and playwright who wrote in Yiddish and 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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