ALEICHEM, SHOLEM

shōˈləm älāˈkhəm [Heb.=Peace be upon you!], pseud. of Sholem Rabinowitzräbˌĭnôˈvĭts, rəbĭnˈəvĭts, 1859–1916, Yiddish author, b. Russia. One of the great Yiddish writers, he is best known for his humorous tales of life among the poverty-ridden and oppressed Russian Jews of the late 19th and early 20th cent. His works include five novels, many plays, and some 300 short stories. English translations include The Adventures of Menahem-Mendl (1979), In the Storm (1984), and Tevya the Dairyman (1988). In the last years of his life Sholem Aleichem lived in the United States; he died in New York City where, through his work, he helped to found the Yiddish Art Theater. Many of his works have been adapted for the stage, most notably the musical Fiddler on the Roof (1964). His autobiographical writings include From the Fair (1985).

See studies by D. Miron (1973) and V. Aarons (1985).

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books on: Aleichem Sholem  - 168 results

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The Man Who Loved Laughter: The Story of Sholom Aleichem
Book by Louis Falstein, Adrianne Onderdonk Dudden; Jewish Publication Society of America, 1968
Subjects: Sholem Aleichem--1859-1916
...The carriage was in front of the Sholom Aleichem house.The traveling bags had been loaded...leave-taking was not over. Sholom Aleichem was shaking hands, embracing friends...go on doing creative work. But Sholom Aleichem was at all times more than a writer...
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Nineteen to the Dozen: Monologues and Bits and Bobs of Other Things
Book by Sholem Aleichem, Ted Gorelick, Ken Frieden; Syracuse University Press, 1998
Subjects: Fiction
...above misfortune. In contrast, Sholem Aleichem sug gests a more ironic and critical...Three Widows" and "Joseph". Sholem Aleichem was born Sholem Naumovitsh Rabinovitsh...intellectuals. After high school Sholem Aleichem tutored Olga, the daughter of...
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Twentieth-Century Epic Novels
Book by Theodore L. Steinberg; University of Delaware Press, 2005
Subjects: Asch, Sholem--1880-1957--Criticism And Interpretation, Durrell, Lawrence--Alexandria Quartet, English Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism, Epic Literature--History And Criticism, Manning, Olivia--Criticism And Interpretation, Scott, Paul--1920---Raj Quartet, Whittemore, Edward--Jerusalem Quartet
...his. Americans know Sholom Aleichem as the author of the Tevye...musical adapta- tion. Sholom Aleichem also wrote many other works...told Im the Amer- ican Sholom Aleichem. After Abramovitsch and Rabinovitz...one of Peretzs disciples, Sholem Asch, to write a Yiddish epic...
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Beyond the Pale: The Jewish Encounter with Late Imperial Russia
Book by Benjamin Nathans; University of California Press, 2002
Subjects: Jews--Cultural Assimilation--Russia, Jews--Russia (Federation)--Saint Petersburg--History--20th Century, Jews--Russia--History--19th Century, Russia--Ethnic Relations
...revolutsionere bavegung mit 43 yor tsurik. Di tsukunft, no. 29 (1924). Aleichem, Sholem. Ale verk fun Sholem Aleichem. 7 vols. New York, 1944. Aleichem, Sholem. The Bloody Hoax. Trans. Aliza Shevrin. Bloomington, 1991. Aleichem...
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God, Man, and Devil: Yiddish Plays in Translation
Book by Nahma Sandrow; Syracuse University Press, 1999
Subjects: Yiddish Drama--Translations Into English
...Engquist. New York, Samuel French, Inc., 1986. Sholem Aleichem Sholem Rabinowitz . Hard to Be a Jew . Translated by Melech Grafstein. In Melech Grafsteins Sholom Aleichem Panorama ,235-66. Ontario: The Jewish Observer...
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journal articles on: Aleichem Sholem  - 43 results

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Tevye on King Street: Charleston and the Translation of Sholem Aleichem
Journal article by Joseph Butwin; American Jewish History, Vol. 93, 2007
Subjects: Aleichem, Sholom--Works, Antin, Mary--Works, Jewish literature--Translations and translating
...Charleston and the Translation of Sholem Aleichem. by Joseph Butwin Of the green...translated from the Yiddish of Sholem Aleichem. The book was called The Old...nearly half of his selections of Sholem Aleichem came from The Old Country...
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Negotiating Jewish Canadian Identity: Montreal Yiddish Literary Journals in the Interwar Period
Journal article by Rebecca Margolis; Shofar, Vol. 27, 2009
Subjects: Canada, Canadian history, Jewish Canadians, Journals, Linguistics, Poetry, Publishing industry, Social identity, Yiddish language
...Adler to mark the recent death of Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem (Sholem Rabinovitch); two issues of a Toronto journal...sforim (No. 1, January-February 1936), Sholem Aleichem (No. 2, May-June 1936), and Moyshe Leib Halpern...
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At Home in Exile: The Living Paradoxes of Moyshe Nadir's Early 20th-Century American Yiddish Satire (Discussion and Translation)
Journal article by Kenneth Wishnia; MELUS, Vol. 25, 2000
Subjects: Jewish authors--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Nadir, Moyshe--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Satire--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Yiddish literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...Samuel Clemens Mark Twain, Solomon Rabinovitshs Sholem Aleichem, Sholem Yankev Abramovitshs Mendele Moykher-Sforim, and...Goldsmith, Emanuel S. "The Divine Humor of Sholom Aleichem on his 70th Yortsayt." Judaism 35.4 (1986...
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Annual Bibliography of Works about Life Writing, 2004-2005
Journal article by Phyllis E. Wachter, William Todd Schultz; Biography, Vol. 28, 2005
Subjects: Autobiographies, Bibliographies, Bibliography--Best books, Book lists
...Comprehensive study of autobiographical writing in Yiddish, focusing on the work of Isaac Bashevis Singer, Sholem Aleichem, Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh, Jonah Rosenfeld, Yankev Glatshteyn, I. L. Peretz, and Chaim Grade. Scott, Marla M...
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Schwarz, Jan. Imagining Lives: Autobiographical Fiction of Yiddish Writers
Journal article by Amelia Glaser; Biography, Vol. 29, 2006
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Imagining Lives: Autobiographical Fiction of Yiddish Writers (Book)--Book reviews
...known by his literary persona, Sholem Aleichem) begins his autobiographical...works by Sholem Rabinovich (Sholem Aleichem), Itzhok Leybush Peretz, Sholem...throughout the Modern period. Sholem Aleichem, for example, borrowed the...
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magazine articles on: Aleichem Sholem  - 18 results

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The Orphan Lover
Magazine article by Norma Rosen; The Antioch Review, Vol. 59, Fall 2001
Subjects: Short stories
...translating as she went, read aloud a Sholem Aleichem story with the refrain: "Im...materialized from the land of Sholem Aleichem. Then I understood. "What...Your aunt read you that Sholem Aleichem story one day, and it connected...
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The Hollywood Blacklist and the Jew: an Exploration of Popular Culture
Magazine article by Paul Buhle; Tikkun, Vol. 10, September 1995
Subjects: Entertainment, Motion pictures, Politics
...like Mendel Mokher Sforim and Sholem Aleichem used the satire and wry humor...outside. Any close reader of Sholem Aleichem will find in the credulousness...features of the American bargain. Sholem Aleichem, who actually died in the Bronx...
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About Saul Bellow
Magazine article by William R. Ferris; Humanities, Vol. 21, November 2000
Subjects: Atlas, James, Bellow, Saul, Biographies, Composition, Nobel prizes, Writers
...or something biblical or something from a story by Sholem Aleichem. That kind of seeing every daily event as a story...Herzog, for one, seems to be a new version of the Sholem Aleichem character Tevye. You have talked about this earlier...
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Falling in Love with Yiddish
Magazine article by Matthew Goodman; American Scholar, Vol. 69, Summer 2000
Subjects: Language and languages--Study and teaching, Yiddish language--Study and teaching
...the best known being Mendele Moykher-Sforim, Sholem Aleichem, and I. L. Peretz--began to produce the first...who is born with his memories of Paradise intact, or Sholem Aleichems Ayznban-geshiktes (Railroad Stories...
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Those Who Sow in Tears Shall Reap with Joy: Agriculture and Jewish Culture in Interwar Poland
Magazine article by David Biale; Tikkun, Vol. 16, January 2001
Subjects: Agriculture, Europe, Farming, History, International, Poland
...quarter of the Jewish population continued to live in small villages where the image created by the Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem of Tevye the Milkman was based on social reality. Most of these village Jews were middlemen in the agricultural economy...
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Showbiz Sam; THE MAN IN THE KNOW
Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), July 24, 2004
...1971 movie was written by Joseph Stein, adapted from the book of the stage musical which was based on the stories of Sholem Aleichem. The action was based on the lives of Russian Jews in pre-Bolshevik times. The main stars were Topol as patriarch...
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Laureate and a Lost World
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 22, 2006
Subjects: Literary prizes
...work lest they overshadow him. In the end, this politically conservative man who was more influenced by Gogol than Sholem Aleichem, this lover of women who at the end of his life seems to have made amends with many whom he let down, triumphed...
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Saving a Language with Chutzpah
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), March 21, 2005
...a voluminous literature for an avid readership. A minor novel by Itche-Meir Dik sold 120,000 copies in 1857. Sholem Aleichem, I L Peretz and Mendele Moykher Seforim (Mendel the Bookseller) became bestsellers in the new American diaspora...


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encyclopedia articles on: Aleichem Sholem  - 6 results

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Aleichem, Sholem
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ALEICHEM, SHOLEM sho l m ala kh m Heb.=Peace be upon you!, pseud. of Sholem Rabinowitz rab ino vits, r bin vits...1988). In the last years of his life Sholem Aleichem lived in the United States; he died...
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Sholem Aleichem
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SHOLEM ALEICHEM see Aleichem, Sholem . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Sholom Aleichem
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SHOLOM ALEICHEM see Aleichem, Sholem . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Rabinowich, Sholem
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
RABINOWICH, SHOLEM see Aleichem, Sholem . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Yiddish Language
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Kleyne Mentshele ( The Little Man ) by Mendele mocher sforim . Among the best-known writers in Yiddish literature are Sholem Aleichem , I. L. Peretz , Isaac Meier Dik, and Isaac Bashevis Singer , the first writer in the language to be awarded...
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