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Aleichem, Sholem (shō`ləm älā`khəm) [Heb.=Peace be upon you!], pseud. of Sholem Rabinowitz (räb'ĭnô`vĭts, rəbĭn`əvĭts), 1859–1916, Yiddish author, b. Russia. One of the great Yiddish writers, he is best known for his humorous tales of life among the poverty-ridden and oppressed Russian Jews of the late 19th and early 20th cent. His works include five novels, many plays, and some 300 short stories. English translations include The Adventures of Menahem-Mendl (1979), In the Storm (1984), and Tevya the Dairyman (1988). In the last years of his life Sholem Aleichem lived in the United States; he died in New York City where, through his work, he helped to found the Yiddish Art Theater. Many of his works have been adapted for the stage, most notably the musical Fiddler on the Roof (1964). His autobiographical writings include From the Fair (1985).
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Many authors of literary satire therefore often use multiple
comic masks as an aid to indirection, creating such celebrated
pseudonymous personae as Samuel Clemens' Mark Twain, Solomon
Rabinovitsh's Sholem Aleichem, Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh's
Mendele Moykher-Sforim, and Itskhak Reiz's Moyshe Nadir, which was
such an effective pseudonym that most literary studies, including this
one, and encyclopedia entries refer to him almost exclusively by his
pseudonym. |
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