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	Sholom Aleichem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		[4] Sholom Aleichem died in New York in 1916 at the age of 57, while still working on his last novel, Mottel the Cantor's son, and was laid to rest at the Brooklyn cemetery.
		In 1997, a monument dedicated to Sholom Aleichem was erected in Kiev; another was erected in 2001 in Moscow.
		Sholom Aleichem was often referred to as the "Jewish Mark Twain" because of the two authors' similar writing styles and use of pen names.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sholom_Aleichem (1595 words)

	Sholom Aleichem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sholom Aleichem, the pseudonym of Sholom Yakov Rabinowitz, whose name is actually a conventional Yiddish greeting meaning "Peace be with you," was born in the Ukraine to a wealthy father who was a religious scholar.
		Sholom Aleichem became one of the premier Yiddish writers and as Jewish life became more and more fragmented through displacement, he helped unify people through his stories.
		Despite Aleichem's continuous writing and publishing he continued to struggle financially and his financial worries, as well as his concern for his son Misha, began to take their toll.
	www.d.umn.edu /~kmaurer/Fiddler/Sholom.html (548 words)

	Commentary Magazine - The Gift of Sholom Aleichem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Niger, S. ONE of Sholom Aleichem's plays is called "It's Hard To Be A Jew." When Solomon Rabinowitz made his first appearance as a writer, it was even harder to be a Jewish humorist-if not in real life,...
		...Sholom Aleichem preserves the treasures of the Jewish language, the folklore of the Jews of Eastern Europe, the special flavor of their way of life...
		...The young Sholom Aleichem felt it neessar4 to adopt the serious and didactic tone of his elders, and his wonderful humor was reserved for private use, so to speak, in his correspondence...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V2I2P22-1.htm (4782 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Sholom Aleichem - Author
		Sholom Aleichem was born on 2 March, 1859 in the small town of Pereyaslav - not to be confused with the more famous town Pereyaslav-Zalyeskiy near Moscow - southeast of Kiev, now Ukraine, then a part of the Russian Empire.
		Aleichem was introduced (they needed a translator) with the words 'This is Sholom Aleichem, the Yiddish Mark Twain'.
		Sholom Aleichem was born on 2 March, 1859 into a relatively well-off family and had eleven siblings.
	tickers.bbc.co.uk /dna/ww2/A9559722 (2259 words)

	NCSJ - Aleichem Honored in Moscow
		Sholom Aleichem was born Solomon Rabinovich in 1859 in the town of Pereyaslavl in the Poltava area of what is now Ukraine.
		Known as the "bard of the poor," Sholom Aleichem always took their side, and begged to be buried among them when he died.
		Sholom Aleichem's granddaughter, Bel Kaufman, a writer who lives in Manhattan, gave rare photographs of her grandfather to help the sculptor create a good likeness.
	www.ncsj.org /AuxPages/010502Aleichem.shtml (880 words)

	EveningStan
		Sholom Aleichem's stories of Jewish village life were turned into the hit musical Fiddler on the Roof.
		Aleichem was born Solomon Rabinowitz near Kiev in the Ukraine in 1859 and was instrumental in developing the Yiddish Language into a powerful medium for literature, poetry and theatre.
		Adapting the Aleichem stories for the stage, the most significant problem he came across was translation a language as rich in imagery and illusion as Yiddish.
	freespace.virgin.net /saul.reichlin/html/EveningStantxt.html (592 words)

	Shalom Aleichem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shalom Aleichem (or Sholom aleichem) (Hebrew שלום עליכם shālôm ʻalêḵem; Yiddish שלום־עליכם şolem aleyxem) is a greeting in Hebrew, meaning "Peace be upon you".
		Shalom Aleichem is also an alternative spelling for the pen name of Yiddish author Sholom Aleichem.
		Shalom could be also interpreted as "The Peace": a peace personally felt, a deeply calmness and mental balance, which comes like a present to you who appreciate God.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shalom_Aleichem (313 words)

	Sholom Aleichem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sholom Aleichem is a traditional Hebrew and Yiddish greeting and means "peace be with you" was the pseudonym adopted in 1883 by Solomon Rabinovich (1859-1916) Yiddish short-story writer, dramatist, and humorist.
		Regarded as one of the most creative writers in Yiddish, Sholom Aleichem was famous for his sad and ironical novels and stories that describe the life of simple Russian Jews in small towns.
		Sholom Aleichem was admitted in Russian pantheon of literary classics (who already couldn’t say anything wrong about Soviet Union.) Such attitude to a Jewish author supposes to prove appearance of good Jewish life in Russia despite it was not so good in the reality.
	www.jewishgen.org /Ukraine/Photo_Album/Stamps/sholom_aleichem.htm (643 words)

	Commentary Magazine - On the Horizon: Sholom Aleichem in Exile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		...SHOLOM ALEICHEM gave his first public reading in London on June i, 190o6, at the South Place Institute, a building of rather medium capacity which was usually the rendezvous of Ethical Church preachers...
		...Sholom Aleichem remained in England during this first visit for more than two months, and I was in constant touch with him throughout that time...
		...Sholom Aleichem repeated his reading in Leeds, which then contained a predominantly Yiddish-speaking Jewish community, and then returned to London, where he took part in a public celebration of the tenth anniversary of Theodor Herzl's first visit to London...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V8I6P78-1.htm (3549 words)

	Chestnut Hill Local - News Story #5
		On paper, the Sholom Aleichem Club defines itself as an organization dedicated to preserving and promoting secular humanistic Jewish culture and values in the Greater Philadelphia Region and beyond.
		Sholom Aleichem also means "peace" in Yiddish and Hebrew.
		The Sholom Aleichem Club sponsors dynamic, stimulating programs throughout the year on topics ranging from national and world affairs to the relationship between Blacks and Jews.
	www.chestnuthilllocal.com /archives/060304/news5.html (781 words)

	Alibris: Sholem Aleichem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Never before issued as a complete novella in English, this is Sholom Aleichem's elliptical tale of a love that cannot be, exquisitely rendered by the world's leading translator of the Yiddish master--and beautifully illustrated by an award-winning artist.
		One of Aleichem's richest characterizations, Menahem-Mendl is an incurable optimist, whose every venture ends in disaster yet who never ceases to build castles in the air.
		A creator of stories and satires, novels and plays, monologues and children's tales, fantasies and sketches, Sholom Aleichem endeared himself to the public with his shrewd, loving, and accurate portrayals of the speech, manners, and foibles of the Eastern European Jew.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Aleichem,Sholem (585 words)

	The Jewish Week (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		When, in one of Sholom Aleichem’s stories, a person walks into a room, that person is simply referred to as a Yid, a Jew.
		Sholom Aleichem, born Solomon Rabinovich in 1859 in an area that is now part of Ukraine, is perhaps the best-loved Yiddish writer of all time.
		When the pogroms began in the early 1880s, at about the same time as Sholom Aleichem started writing his stories, the shtetl’s days were numbered.
	www.thejewishweek.com /news/newscontent.php3?artid=8918&print=yes (659 words)

	(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sholem Aleichem, (pseudonym for Sholem Rabinovitch 1859-1916) the self-appointed heir to Mendele, became and remains one of the most popular Yiddish/Jewish writers.
		His major contribution to modern Yiddish literature is considered to be in the area of language; in his ability to capture the essence of the spoken Yiddish word among a variety of folk characters, and to transfer it successfully to the written word.
		In addition, Sholem Aleichem undertook a serious role in the effort to establish a place for modern Yiddish literature among the literatures of Europe.
	www.bialik.netaxis.qc.ca /yiddish/aleichem.htm (242 words)

	Amazon.ca: Sholom's Treasure: How Sholom Aleichem Became a Writer: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Bored with his lessons and looking to create his own laughter, Sholom became the class clown, and dreamed of the treasures he could bestow upon his parents, whose life in the shtetl grew increasingly difficult.
		The name Sholom Aleichem may be familiar to only a few children, but the story of this young imp, who was determined to do his father proud, will strike a chord with many.
		Born Sholom Rabinowitz, he was 1 of 12 children living in a Russian shtetl.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0374380554 (522 words)

	Sholom's Treasure
		Sholom's Treasure is the story of the childhood of Russian writer Sholom Rabinowitz who wrote under the name Sholom Aleichem.
		As a writer, Sholom Aleichem believed in showing people how to laugh in the midst of hardship, and Sholom's Treasure shows us how the boy Sholom developed his love of laughter.
		The text is long, though interesting, but it's really a bit over the head of listeners on the younger end of the recommended age group.
	www.myshelf.com /kids/fiction/05/sholomstreasure.htm (179 words)

	Sholom Aleichem Home Page
		The Sholom Aleichem Network, Inc. is a not for profit corporation.
		Sholom Aleichem, Yiddish literature's most beloved author, was one of the very few modern writers who speaks for an entire people.
		In keeping up with the major developments of browsers, platforms and compabitlibly, currently we are in a state of transformation.
	www.sholom-aleichem.org (323 words)

	The Bloody Hoax
		Sholom Aleichem's family maintains a web site which even includes some of his short stories in electronic format.
		ONE OF About a hundred years ago, in New York, Sholom Aleichem was introduced to Mark Twain as "the Jewish Mark Twain", already famous for his timeless stories of European life, by then considered classics.
		But while the basic premise of Aleichem's work was unquestionably influenced by Twain's, The Bloody Hoax is a comedy of mistakes with a message, targeted clearly at an adult audience -- unlike The Prince and the Pauper, which was subtitled "a story for young people of all ages".
	www.forum2.org /tal/books/bloody.html (794 words)

	Jewish Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Marie Waife-Goldberg, author of My Father, Sholom Aleichem, recalls her childhood in Kiev as one of six children of the famous Yiddish folk humorist, Sholom Aleichem.
		Discussion of “shtetl” life as reflected in the works of Sholom Aleichem and his role as the representative of that world.
		Reference is also made to the significance of the Sabbath in the world of Sholom Aleichem.
	www.aldenfilms.com /jlit.html (408 words)

	Fremd Viking Theatre Presents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This continuing interest was vastly accelerated when in 1953 Arnold Perl, a long-time admirer of Sholom Aleichem's work, and that of I. Peretz and other popular Yiddish writers, put together a series of short plays.
		They were based on Aleichem's stories, including one by Peretz, which under the title of "The World of Sholom Aleichem" vivified dramatically the life of the Jewish "Shetetls" in Czarist Russia, a picturesque, though impoverished life that had disintegrated considerably as a result of World War I and was thoroughly destroyed in World War II.
		Fiddler on the Roof, based on the short story "Tevye and His Daughters" by Sholom Aleichem, was one of the first musicals to defy Broadway's established rules of commercial success.
	www.fhs.d211.org /activities/drama/fiddler.htm (471 words)

	eBay - sholom aleichem, Nonfiction Books, Fiction Books items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		SHOLOM ALEICHEM LP If I were a Rothschild Monitor
		From the Fair: Autobiography of Sholom Aleichem 1ST ED
		In The Storm by Sholom Aleichem hc/dj 1984
	search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=sholom+aleichem&...&krd=1 (439 words)

	FORWARD : FastForward (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		On the day after his funeral in 1916, Sholom Aleichem's will appeared in the pages of The New York Times and was read into the congressional record.
		Mitchell Waife, Robert's father and Sholom Aleichem's grandson, who has been attending these yahrzeits since his infancy, recalls the smaller gatherings of the early years.
		Audrey Marcus, 29, is a great-great-granddaughter of Sholom Aleichem.
	www.forward.com /issues/2003/03.05.16/fast2.html (949 words)

	FORWARD : Arts & Letters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Nine years later, Sholom Aleichem wrote "Stempenyu: a Jewish Romance." Although an obscure story today, in its time it was extremely popular; in fact, it was the first Sholom Aleichem story translated into other languages, first German in 1889, and then English in 1913.
		In 1907, according to author Jacob (Kobi) Weitzner's book, "Sholem Aleichem in the Theater," Sholom Aleichem wrote a theatrical adaptation for Boris Thomashefsky's People's Theater in New York, but the play was a disaster.
		Still, Sholom Aleichem was undeterred and, according to J. Hoberman in "Bridge of Light," Sholom Aleichem completed a screen adaptation, and Maurice Schwartz optioned the film rights from his widow after he died in 1916.
	www.forward.com /issues/2003/03.09.05/arts3.fiddler.html (766 words)

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		And a careful reading of Sholom Aleichem will show that almost never does he use a word or phrase without having a carefully thought-out reason for it.
		The common word for "man" among Yiddish speakers was and is, "Yid" =96 Jew -- and in the writings of Sholom Aleichem this is almost always the case.
		Sholom Aleichem could just as easily have said, "sidurim" or Chanuka licht", but he didn=92t.
	shakti.trincoll.edu /~mendele/vol07/vol07.011 (1336 words)

	All About Jewish Theatre - Saul Reichlin Brings Sholom Aleichem to New York
		So my Russian mother, herself born in Sholom Aleichem country, the Ukraine, and who had tried vainly to interest me in Yiddish for many years, finally placed in my hands the material which was to transform my working life, and with it, the rest of my life as well.
		These days a one-person company with no set is a very economical prospect, especially when a the show is a new Sholom Aleichem piece, and the reviews from other venues have been so strong.
		It is ironic that the atrocity of 9 -11 has meant that the reluctance of Americans to visit abroad, and the effect that has had on theatres in London has brought me to the U.S., where perhaps the most natural audience for Sholom Aleichem resides.
	www.jewish-theatre.com /visitor/article_display.aspx?articleID=388 (1915 words)

	Sholom Aleichem
		Sholom Aleichem was the author of the stories which inspired the musical Fiddler on the Roof.
		Here Saul Reichlin dramatises some of Sholom Aleichem's lesser known stories.
		Reichlin is an accomplished performer, but I felt his approach was over reverential.
	www.culturewars.org.uk /edinburgh2003/identity/sholomaleichem.htm (171 words)

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