Sholem Aleichem

Sholem Aleichem, born Sholem Rabinovitch, was born on 2 March 1859 in Pereiaslav, into a Jewish family; he was thirteen when his mother died of cholera. A tutor in the household of a wealthy landowner, whose daughter he married, he wrote novels, stories and plays in Yiddish, and the first children's tales in that language. Ruined in 1890 on the Kiev stock exchange, he reached New York in 1914 in poor health and died there on 13 May 1916; more than a hundred thousand people followed his funeral procession, and his will appeared the next day in the New York Times.

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• NovelTevye the Dairymanטבֿיה דער מילכיקערSholem Aleichem · 1894Literature