Quick Facts

• 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

Best Known For

Sholem Aleichem was a leading Yiddish author and playwright. The musical Fiddler on the Roof is baed on his stories about Tevye the Milkman.