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Sholem Aleichem's first venture into writing was an alphabetic glossary of the epithets used by his stepmother. At the age of fifteen, he composed a Jewish version of the novel Robinson Crusoe. He adopted the pseudonym Sholem Aleichem, a Yiddish variant of the Hebrew expression shalom aleichem, meaning "peace be with you" and typically used as ...
Jun 5, 2024 · Sholem Aleichem was a popular author, a humorist noted for his many Yiddish stories of life in the shtetl. He is one of the preeminent classical writers of modern Yiddish literature. Drawn to writing as a youth, he became a private tutor of Russian at age 17.
Welcome to the first comprehensive website dedicated to Sholem Aleichem [1859-1916], the most popular and iconic Jewish writer of his generation.
A supreme Jewish humorist, Sholem Aleichem tapped into the energies of the East European, spoken-Yiddish idiom and invented modern Jewish archetypes, myths, and fables of unequaled imaginative potency and universal appeal. Page from an original manuscript of Funem yarid (Back from the Fair), by Sholem Aleichem, 1915.
Sholem Aleichem: novelist, essayist, playwright and one of the great writers of the late-19th and early-20th centuries.
Shalom Aleichem did not limit his creative scope to Yiddish but published stories, sketches, and articles in Hebrew and Russian. In 1888, his financial situation enabled him to realize a long-cherished dream: founding a Yiddish literary annual through which the standards of European taste would be introduced into Yiddish literature.
Sholem Aleichem was Sholem Rabinovitch’s tragic-comic persona, a character who mediated the tales of the people to the people. The name itself is significant. “Sholem Aleichem” is a Hebrew greeting, meaning literally “Peace be upon you,” but a more appropriate translation might be: “What’s up?”
Russian-born American humorist Sholem Aleichem or Sholom Aleichem, originally Solomon Rabinowitz, in Yiddish originally wrote stories and plays, the basi...
Sholem Aleichem was not only the most beloved Yiddish writer, he was one of the most important figures in the development of Yiddish literature. Edited and published by Sholem Aleichem, the aim of this miscellany was to sustain and nourish Yiddish literature, then in its infancy.
Sholem Aleichem: novelist, essayist, playwright and one of the great writers of the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Born Sholem Naumovich Rabinovich he created rich characters that stand out because of their humanity and their universal appeal.
