Sholem Aleichem

Mar 2, 1859 - May 13, 1916

Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich, better known under his pen name Sholem Aleichem, was a Yiddish author and playwright. The 1964 musical Fiddler on the Roof, based on his 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 literally means "[May] peace [be] upon you!", and is a greeting in traditional Hebrew and Yiddish.
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“A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.”

Sholem Aleichem
Mar 2, 1859 - May 13, 1916
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