Sholem Aleichem
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Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich, 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 196
Sholem Aleichem in 1907
Sholem Aleichem in 1910
A volume of Sholem Aleichem stories in Yiddish, with the author's portrait and signature
Monument to Sholem Aleichem in Bohuslav, Ukraine
Tevye
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Tevye the Dairyman, also translated as Tevye the Milkman, is the fictional narrator and protagonist of a series of short stories by Sholem Aleichem, and their various adaptations, the most famous bein
Sholem Aleichem
…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…
Actor John Stefano portraying Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof
Tevye der milkhiker by Rywka Berger (1934)