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Sholem Aleichem

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Sholem Aleichem: see Aleichem, Sholem Aleichem, Sholem (shō`ləm älā`khəm) [Heb.=Peace be upon you!], pseud.
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Sholem Aleichem

 orig. Sholem Yakov Rabinowitz

(born Feb. 18, 1859, Pereyaslav, Russia—died May 13, 1916, New York, N.Y., U.S.) Russian writer. Drawn to writing as a youth, he became a private tutor at age 17 and later served as a government rabbi. Beginning in 1883 he published more than 40 widely translated volumes of novels, stories, and plays in Yiddish. English translations from his 14-volume collected works include Jewish Children and The Old Country. His best-known character, Tevye the dairyman, was the subject of a volume of short stories that later was the basis for the musical Fiddler on the Roof (1964).



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Sholem Aleichem objected vehemently, proposing instead that Tevye's quotations be translated into a stylized Church Slavonic.
And for still another Soto incarnation, turn to the picture books Too Many Tamales and especially If the Shoe Fits, and what comes to mind is the generous folk humor of a Sholem Aleichem.
Lamed Shapiro (1878-1948) was an influential Yiddish writer who along with other "second-generation" Yiddish authors such as Jacob Glatshteyn, shifted the focus of Yiddish literature from the external descriptions of Jewish life (of the "first-generation" of Yiddish writers: Mendele Moycher Sforim, Sholem Aleichem, and Y.
 
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