Sholem Aleichem
1859 – 1916 · aged 57
Jewish writer and playwright of Yiddish, who worked in Russian Empire, Switzerland, Germany and the United States (1859-1916)
- Born
- 2 Mar 1859 · Pereiaslav
- Died
- 13 May 1916 · New York City
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- 2 Mar 1859BornBorn in Pereiaslav
- 13 May 1916DiedDied in New York City
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1859 – 1916).
- 1870 – 1871Franco-Prussian War
- 18961896 Summer Olympics
- 1898Spanish–American War
- 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
- 1914 – 1918World War I
- 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
Biography
Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich or Solomon Naumovych Rabinovych (2 March [O.S. 18 February] 1859 – May 13, 1916), better known under his pen name Sholem Aleichem, was a Ukrainian Jewish author and playwright who wrote in Yiddish and lived in the Russian Empire and later 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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