Sholem Aleichem biography

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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.