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Sholem Aleichem

1859 - 1916

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Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich (Russian: Соломон Наумович Рабинович; March 2 [O.S. February 18] 1859 – May 13, 1916), better known under his pen name Sholem Aleichem (Yiddish and Hebrew: שלום עליכם, also spelled שאָלעם־אלייכעם in Soviet Yiddish, [ˈʃɔləm aˈlɛjxəm]; Russian: Шо́лом-Але́йхем), was a Yiddish author and playwright who 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. The Hebrew phrase שלום עליכם (shalom aleichem) literally means "[May] peace [be] upon you!", and is a greeting in traditional Hebrew and Yiddish. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sholem Aleichem is the 434th most popular writer (down from 421st in 2019), the 55th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 51st in 2019) and the 10th most popular Ukrainian Writer.

Sholem Aleichem is most famous for his work Tevye the Dairyman, which tells the story of a Jewish milkman and his family in a Russian village.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Sholem Aleichem ranks 434 out of 7,302. Before him are Jacques Prévert, William of Rubruck, Phillis Wheatley, Einhard, Ágota Kristóf, and Gertrude Stein. After him are Joseph Brodsky, Sergei Yesenin, Sándor Márai, Gregory of Tours, Georges Bataille, and Fausto Cercignani.

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Among people born in 1859, Sholem Aleichem ranks 15. Before him are John Dewey, Georges Seurat, Alfred Dreyfus, Yuan Shikai, Billy the Kid, and Verner von Heidenstam. After him are Alexandre Millerand, Jean Jaurès, George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Jerome K. Jerome, Pierre Janet, and Hugo Junkers. Among people deceased in 1916, Sholem Aleichem ranks 18. Before him are Odilon Redon, Franz Marc, James Connolly, Richard Dedekind, Otto of Bavaria, and José Echegaray. After him are Henry James, Umberto Boccioni, Natsume Sōseki, Hiram Maxim, Ivan Franko, and Helmuth von Moltke the Younger.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Sholem Aleichem ranks 55 out of 1,365. Before him are Vladimir II Monomakh (1053), Stanislaw Ulam (1909), Andrei Zhdanov (1896), Vladimir Horowitz (1903), Sergei Korolev (1906), and Andrei Chikatilo (1936). After him are Moshe Sharett (1894), Sviatoslav Richter (1915), Georges Charpak (1924), Levi Eshkol (1895), Selman Waksman (1888), and David Oistrakh (1908).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Sholem Aleichem ranks 10. Before him are Joseph Conrad (1857), Svetlana Alexievich (1948), Stanisław Lem (1921), Anna Akhmatova (1889), Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836), and Joseph Roth (1894). After him are Lesya Ukrainka (1871), Isaac Babel (1894), Ivan Franko (1856), Ilya Ehrenburg (1891), Vasily Grossman (1905), and Anton Makarenko (1888).

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