Sholom Aleichem
Sholom Aleichem
Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich, better known under his pen name Sholem Aleichem, was a leading Yiddish author and playwright. The musical Fiddler on the Roof, based on his stories about Tevye the Dairyman, was the first commercially successful English-language stage production about Jewish life in Eastern Europe. The Hebrew phrase Shalom aleichem literally means "Peace be upon you", and is a greeting in traditional Hebrew and Yiddish...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth2 March 1859
CountryRussian Federation
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
Gossip is nature's telephone.
No one knows whom the shoe pinches - no one.