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    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...
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  • Shalom Aleichem (Hebrew: שָׁלוֹם עֲלֵיכֶם, 'Peace be upon you') is a traditional song sung by many Jews every Friday night upon returning home from synagogue...
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  • Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness is an American biographical documentary film about Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem, who is best known for his...
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    Sholem Aleichem is a crater on Mercury, named after the Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem. The inter-crater plain deposits have been deformed by linear ridges...
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    Sholem Aleichem Amur State University (Russian: Приамурский государственный университет имени Шолом-Алейхема), formerly Birobidzhan State Pedagogical...
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  • Sholem Aleichem College is an Independent Jewish co-educational early learning and primary day school located in the Melbourne suburb of Elsternwick,...
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    Tevye (category Sholem Aleichem)
    fictional narrator and protagonist of a series of short stories by Sholem Aleichem, and their various adaptations, the most famous being the 1964 stage...
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  • is a play by Sholem Aleichem, in the tradition of Yiddish theatre. Originally called The Treasure in its earlier incarnation, Aleichem changed the title...
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    Levine, and Sol Steinmetz count him with Mendele Mokher Seforim and Sholem Aleichem as one of the three great classical Yiddish writers. Sol Liptzin wrote:...
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  • reflects his aspirations. Its title was inspired by a 1902 monologue by Sholem Aleichem in Yiddish, Ven ikh bin Rothschild (Yiddish: װען איך בין ראָטשילד;...
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  • libretto after the Yiddish play Mazel Tov by Sholem Aleichem. The plot follows closely the text of Aleichem's play, but emphasising the class conflict to...
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  • Fiddler on the Roof (category Adaptations of works by Sholem Aleichem)
    Tevye and his Daughters (or Tevye the Dairyman) and other tales by Sholem Aleichem. The story centers on Tevye, a milkman in the village of Anatevka,...
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    the "Dumas of Yiddish literature", he was significantly damaged by Sholem Aleichem, who derided his plotting as extravagantly artificial and improbable...
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    Kicking (1950, musical revue) The Live Wire (1950, play) The World of Sholem Aleichem (1953, play, Off-Broadway) The Diary of Anne Frank (1955–1957, play)...
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    Retrieved January 6, 2021. "Four Unique Books Published by the Sholem Aleichem Club". Sholem Aleichem Club. Retrieved January 6, 2021. Peretz, Martin (November...
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    way of life of East European Jews. In literature by authors such as Sholem Aleichem and Isaac Bashevis Singer, shtetls are portrayed as pious communities...
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  • Menahem-Mendl (category Novels by Sholem Aleichem)
    Menahem-Mendl (Yiddish: מנחם מענדל) is a series of stories and in Yiddish by Sholem Aleichem about hilarious exploits of an optimistic shlemiel Menahem-Mendl, who...
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  • from the original on October 20, 2023. Retrieved November 26, 2021. "Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness (2011)". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the...
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    the great contemporary Yiddish classical writers: Sholem Rabinovich, better known as Sholem Aleichem, Mendele Mocher Sefarim, Isaac Leib Peretz and Nachum...
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  • Canby, Vincent (November 28, 1971). "Is 'Fiddler' More DeMille Than Sholem Aleichem?". The New York Times. 36. Champlin, Charles (November 5, 1971). "'Fiddler...
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    literary innovations on Sholem Aleichem, who "chose to model much of his writing, and even his appearance, on Gogol... What Sholem Aleichem was borrowing from...
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  • Filmworks XX: Sholem Aleichem features a score for film by John Zorn. The album was released on Zorn's own label, Tzadik Records, in 2008 and contains...
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  • and Hebrew literature Sholem Aleichem (1859–1916), Yiddish author and playwright in the Russian Empire and United States Sholem Asch (1880–1957), Polish-Jewish...
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  • Wandering Stars (novel) (category Novels by Sholem Aleichem)
    Stars (Yiddish: Blonzhende Stern or Blundzhende Shtern) is a novel by Sholem Aleichem, serialized in Warsaw newspapers from 1909 to 1911. In it, Leibel,...
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    live. Though not strictly secular, the Yiddish works of authors like Sholem Aleichem (whose collected works amounted to 28 volumes) and Isaac Bashevis Singer...
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  • Yehupetz (category Sholem Aleichem)
    semifictional city in the Russian Empire, a portrayal of Kyiv (Ukraine) in Sholem Aleichem stories. It can be viewed as a transitional place between the classical...
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    and novellas. According to Pirozhkova, As Babel put it, he worked on Sholem Aleichem to "feed his soul." Other "food for the soul" came from writing new...
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    Jewish life in the Pale of Settlement; he is sometimes called "the Sholem Aleichem of painting". Born in a poor Jewish family in a shtetl, he showed an...
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  • Kasrilevka (category Sholem Aleichem)
    (Yiddish: כתרילעווקע) is a fictional shtetl introduced by Yiddish author Sholem Aleichem. Located "exactly in the middle of that blessed Pale", it is an idealized...
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    village which was named after the fictional town of Anatevka from the Sholem Aleichem stories, including Fiddler on the Roof, stories which were set in this...
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