What Ukrainian writer, who was born in the 19th century and died during the First World War, chose a peace wish as his penname and is best-known for a story about a dairyman?

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I found two different spellings of his name: The character of Tevye the Dairyman originated a century ago in a series of stories by Shloime Rabinovitz (1859-1916), the immensely popular Yiddish writer who went by the pen name Sholem Aleichem. http://www.library.ohiou.edu/subjects/jhvc/intjewry.htm Sholom Aleichem, pseudonym of Solomon Rabinovitz (1859-1916), Yiddish short-story writer, dramatist, and humorist, who is regarded as one of the most creative writers in Yiddish. He was born in Pereyaslav (now Pereyaslav-Khmel’nitskiy), near Kyiv, Ukraine. His pseudonym, also spelled Shalom and Sholem, is a traditional Hebrew and Yiddish greeting that means “peace be with you.” He was a teacher and rabbi. In 1905 he fled Jewish persecution in Russia and at the outbreak of World War I in 1914 settled in New York City http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761566574/Sholom_Aleichem.html Aug 13 09, 3:43 PM

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Sholem Naumovich Rabinovich went by the pen-name Sholem Aleichem ("peace be with you") "Fiddler on the Roof" was looseley based on his stories about "Tevye the Milkman". See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sholem_Rabinovich Also: http://www.jewish-theatre.com/visitor/article_list.aspx?articleGroupID=57 Aug 13 09, 3:48 PM