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- NAME: Sholem Aleichem
- OCCUPATION: Religious Leader, Author, Playwright
- BIRTH DATE: February 18, 1859
- DEATH DATE: May 13, 1916
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Pereyaslav, Russia
- PLACE OF DEATH: New York City, New York
- AKA: Sholem Yakov Rabinowtiz
- Originally: Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich
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Sholem Aleichem was a leading Yiddish author and playwright. The musical Fiddler on the Roof is baed on his stories about Tevye the Milkman.
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Russian writer Sholem Aleichem was interested in writing from the time he was young. While serving as a government rabbi he published more than 40 widely translated volumes in Yiddish. English translations of his collected works include Jewish Children and The Old Country. Tevye the milkman was the subject of a volume of short stories that later was the basis for the musical Fiddler on the Roof.© 2013 A+E Networks. All rights reserved.
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