# Sholem Aleichem

> The pen name means "peace be upon you" — and the Yiddish stories he signed with it gave the world Tevye the Dairyman, the milkman whose daughters and dreams became Fiddler on the Roof, the first big English-language stage hit about Jewish life in the shtetl.

*Jewish writer and playwright of Yiddish, who worked in Russian Empire, Switzerland, Germany and the United States (1859-1916)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Born:** 1859-03-02
- **Died:** 1916-05-13
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich was born March 2, 1859, in the Russian Empire and wrote under a pen name borrowed from a traditional greeting. He became a playwright and author working in Yiddish, chronicling a world most of his future audience would never see firsthand. His Tevye stories — about a dairyman, his daughters, tradition bending under pressure — stayed in print long after he died in the United States on May 13, 1916. Nearly fifty years later, in 1964, Fiddler on the Roof opened and became the first commercially successful English-language production to bring Eastern European Jewish life to Broadway. The pen name outlasted the man; the dairyman outlasted them both.

## Fame
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## Platforms
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0017833/ (@nm0017833)
- **WEBSITE**: https://sholemaleichem.org

## Topics
#Writers, #Writer / Author, #Theatre, #Literature, #19th Century

## Sources
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