Sholem Aleichem
Leading yiddish author and playwright
Died when: 57 years 85 days (686 months)Star Sign: Aquarius
Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich (??????? ???????? ?????????), better known under his pen name Sholem Aleichem (Yiddish and Hebrew: ???? ?????, also spelled ?????????????? in Soviet Yiddish, ['??l?m a'l?jx?m];
Russian and Ukrainian: ??´???-???´????) (March 2 [O.S. February 18] 1859 – May 13, 1916), was a Yiddish author and playwright who 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 ???? ????? (shalom aleichem) literally means "[May] peace [be] upon you!", and is a greeting in traditional Hebrew and Yiddish.
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