Sholem Aleichem, Ukrainian-American author and playwright (born 1859)

Sholem Aleichem

Russian Jewish author and playwright (1859–1916)

Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich, better known under his pen name Sholem Aleichem, 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…