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Sholem Aleichem biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Sholem Aleichem

Author Name:

Sholem Aleichem

Born As:

Sholem Naumovich Rabinovich Rabinovitsh or Rabinowitz

Other Names:

Sholem Aleichem

Born:

2 Mar 1859

Died:

13 May 1916




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Selected Works:

English:

The Best of Sholom Aleichem - 1979
Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories - 1987
Nineteen to the Dozen: Monologues and Bits and Bobs of Other Things -  translated 1998
A Treasury of Sholom Aleichem Children’s Stories - translated 1996
Inside Kasrilovka, Three Stories, translated - 1948
The Old Country, translated - 1999
Stories and Satires, translated - 1999.

Novels:

Stempenyu, originally published in his Folksbibliotek, adapted 1905 for the play Jewish Daughters.
Yossele Solovey - 1889, published in his Folksbibliotek
Tevye's Daughters, translated by F. Butwin, originally published 1949
Mottel the Cantor's son,  originally written in Yiddish. English version: Henry Schuman - 1953
In The Storm
Wandering Star

Plays:

The Doctor - 1887, one-act comedy
Der get - The Divorce, 1888, one-act comedy
Di asifa - The Assembly, 1889, one-act comedy
Yaknez - 1894, a satire on brokers and speculators
Tsezeyt un tseshpreyt - Scattered Far and Wide, 1903, comedy
Agentn - Agents, 1905, one-act comedy
Yidishe tekhter - Jewish Daughters, 1905 drama, adaptation of his early novel Stempenyu
Di goldgreber - The Golddiggers, 1907, comedy
Shver tsu zayn a yid - Hard to be a Jew, 1914
Dos groyse gevins - The Big Lottery / The Jackpot, 1916
Tevye der milkhiger, - Tevye the Milkman, 1917, performed posthumously.

Autobiography:

Funem yarid, written 1914-1916, translated as The Great Fair - 1955; translated by Curt Leviant as From the Fair - 1986.

Young Adult Literature:

Menahem-Mendl, translated as The Adventures of Menahem-Mendl, translated by Tamara Kahana, Sholom Aleichem Family Publications, 1969

Motl peysi dem khazns, translated as The Adventures of Mottel, the Cantor's Son, translated by Tamara Kahana, Sholom Aleichem Family Publications, 1999
Also appeared as Mottel the Cantor's son (Henry Schuman, Inc. New York 1953

The Bewitched Tailor, Sholom Aleichem Family Publications, 1999.                          
                          
                          
The musical "Fiddler on the Roof" - 1964, loosely based on Sholem Aleichem's stories about his character Tevye the Milkman. This was the first commercially successful English-language play about Eastern European Jewish life.