Sholom Aleichem (May 13, 1916) was a popular humorist and Russian (geographically, Ukrainian) Jewish author of Yiddish literature, including novels, short stories, and plays. He did much to promote Yiddish writers, and was the first to pen children's literature in Yiddish. His work has been widely translated. The musical "Fiddler on the Roof" (1964), loosely based on Sholom Aleichem's stories about his character Tevye the Milkman, … Wikipedia
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About a hundred years ago, in New York, Sholom Aleichem was introduced to Mark Twain as the Jewish Mark Twain, already famous for his timeless stories of European life, by then considered classics. tal.forum2.org/bloody
Sholom Aleichem (translated from Yiddish as a greeting "Peace be with you") was the pseudonym of Sholom Yakov Rabinovitz. He was born on February 18, 1859, in Pereyaslav near Kiev, Ukraine, in the Russian Empire. His father was a religious scholar and the www.imdb.com/name/nm0017833/
