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Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich, better known under his pen name Sholem Aleichem, was a Jewish author and playwright who wrote in Yiddish and 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.
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culture · Russian Jewish author and playwright (1859–1916) · playwright · writer · film screenwriter · humorist · novelist · satirical novelist · also Sholem Aleichem, Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich, Sholem Aleychem, Sholom Aleykhem, Solem o Salom Alekem, Aleichem
Born 2 March 1859 · Died 13 May 1916 · Q238090
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If I tried to tell you a hundredth part of the way I feel about you, I know that that would be sheer profanation. If I am fated to live a few years longer than I have been expecting, I shall doubtless be able to say that it’s your fault, yours and that of all the other friends who have done so much to carry out your idea of ‘the redemption of the imprisoned.’
Bontshe Shvayg in Lethbridge
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“If I tried to tell you a hundredth part of the way I feel about you, I know that that would be sheer profanation. If I am fated to live a few years longer than I have been expecting, I shall doubtless be able to say that it’s your fault, yours and that of all the other friends who have done so much to carry out your idea of ‘the redemption of the imprisoned.’”
Playbill: Sholem Aleichem-Inspired The Blue Violinist Over West End Avenue Sets Off-Broadway World Premiere
JSTOR Daily: Classic Yiddish Fiction: Abramovitsh, Sholem Aleichem, and Peretz
A Sholem Aleichem website was launched to mark the 100th anniversary of Sholem Aleichem's death
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The New Republic: 'Fiddler on the Roof' Distorted Sholem Aleichem
The Guardian: The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem: The Remarkable Life and Afterlife of the Man Who Created Tevye – review
Jewish Journal: The Sholem Aleichem Exchange, Part 3: The ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ Phenomenon
The Forward: Will the Real Sholem Aleichem Please Stand Up?
Harper's Magazine: The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem
Chicago Tribune: ‘Sholem Aleichem’: Literary giant more than ‘Fiddler’s’ creator
The Forward: Friday Film: Sholem Aleichem’s ‘Bushels and Baskets of Stories’
“Bontshe Shvayg in Lethbridge”
150 years after his birth, the National Bank of Ukraine issued an anniversary coin depicting and celebrating Aleichem
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PBS: Professor Jeremy Dauber on Sholem Aleichem
Jazz: John Zorn: Filmworks XX: Sholem Aleichem
A monument dedicated to Sholem Aleichem was erected in Kyiv; another was erected in 2001 in Moscow
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East 33rd Street between Park and Madison Avenue is additionally named "Sholem Aleichem Place"
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“Feminism and Yiddish Literature: A Personal Approach”
Which was adapted for the stage and made into a film in 1967
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And was made into a film with the same name in 1971
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BIBSA became Associação Sholem Aleichem, under which name it continues to exist
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Maurice Schwartz wrote, directed, and starred as Aleichem's best-known character, in Tevya
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From tuberculosis and diabetes, aged 57, while working on his last novel, Motl, Peysi the Cantor's Son, and was buried at Old Mount Carmel cemetery in Queens
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Died 1916-05-13.
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“Najgorszy wróg nie wyrządził wam w życiu tyle złego, ile człowiek może uczynić sam sobie.”
“Wracamy właśnie stamtąd, dokąd wy jedziecie. Wypłakaliśmy już nasze oczy, teraz kolej na was. Trzeba wam zrobić miejsce.”
“Godzien politowania mężczyzna, o którym wydaje sąd kobieta.”
“Człowiek jest jak stolarz. Stolarz żyje, żyje, a potem umiera. Tak też bywa z człowiekiem.”
The same group that created BIBSA founded a Jewish school named Escola Sholem Aleichem; it closed in 1997
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“Szanujący się pisarz żydowski powinien umierać z głodu. Ja, niestety, umieram z pragnienia…”
“(…) dowiedziano się u nas w Kodniach (u nas wiedzą o wszystkim), że córka bogacza z Kaszewarewki, Icka Borodenki, zachorowała – nie daj Boże! – ciężko. Na czym polega jej choroba? Co tam dużo gadać: miłość. Zakochała się w chrześcijaninie, ten ją odtrącił, więc zażyła trucizny (…).”
As a Zionist institution by a local Jewish group
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In celebration of his 25th Jubilee as a writer, his friend and colleague Jacob Dinezon spearheaded a committee with Dr
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In Czernovitz; his colleague and fellow Yiddish activist Nathan Birnbaum went in his place
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Served as an American delegate to the Eighth Zionist Congress held in The Hague
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And translated into English in 1984 by Aliza Shevrin
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Including Kiev, Sholem Aleichem left Kiev (which was fictionalized as Yehupetz) and he embarked on a tour in Galicia, Bukovina, Romania, France, England and Switzerland
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(under the name Norman Raeben he became a painter and an influential art teacher)
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After he lost his entire fortune, he could not afford to print the almanac's third issue, which had been edited but was subsequently never printed
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Sholem Aleichem lost their entire fortune in stock speculation and fled from his creditors
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“My First Jewish Novel, Stempenyu”
And Olga married, against the wishes of her father, whose estate they inherited a few years later
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When he was 24 years old, he published his first Yiddish story Yiddish: צוויי שטיינער, romanized: Tsvey Shteyner, using the pseudonym Sholem Aleichem for the first time
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After graduating from school in Pereiaslav, he began to work as a teacher
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Born 1859-03-02.
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In Pereiaslav and grew up in the nearby shtetl of Voronkiv, in the Poltava Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine)
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(…) dowiedziano się u nas w Kodniach (u nas wiedzą o wszystkim), że córka bogacza z Kaszewarewki, Icka Borodenki, zachorowała – nie daj Boże! – ciężko. Na czym polega jej choroba? Co tam dużo gadać: miłość. Zakochała się w chrześcijaninie, ten ją odtrącił, więc zażyła trucizny (…).
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