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    Who was Sholem Aleichem?

    Question #118340. Asked by serpa. (Oct 24 10 11:33 PM)


    22crows

    		Sholem Aleichem (Yiddish: שלום־עליכם, Russian and Ukrainian: Шолом Алейхем) (March 2, 1859 - May 13, 1916) was the pen name of Salomon Naumovich Rabinovich, a leading Yiddish author and playwright. The musical Fiddler on the Roof, based on his stories about Tevye the Milkman, was the first commercially successful English-language stage production about Jewish life in Eastern Europe.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sholem_Aleichem

    Oct 25 10, 1:25 AM
    shimonbentzvi

    		When Mark Twain (Sam Clemens) came to NYC the first place he wanted to go to was The Hunts Point section of the Bronx because that was where Rabinovich lived after he emmigrated to the USA. Twain supposedly said that he was the "American Sholom Aleichem" and Rabinovich said he ws the "Jewish Mark Twain."

    Oct 25 10, 3:02 PM

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