Sholom Aleichem
Sholom Aleichem
Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich, better known under his pen name Sholem Aleichem, was a leading Yiddish author and playwright. The 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 Shalom aleichem literally means "Peace be upon you", and is a greeting in traditional Hebrew and Yiddish...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth2 March 1859
CountryRussian Federation
One cannot live on potatoes alone. It is said that one wants bread with potatoes. And when there's no bread, a Jew takes his stick, and goes through the village in search of business.
Gossip is nature's telephone.
The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.
No matter how bad things get, you got to go on living, even if it kills you.
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
When you die, others who think they know you, will concoct things about you... Better pick up a pen and write it yourself, for you know yourself best.