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Sholem Aleichem
Jewish writer and playwright of Yiddish, who worked in Russian Empire, Switzerland, Germany and the United States (1859-1916)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 2 March 1859, 18 February 1859
- Died
- 13 May 1916, 1916
- Place of birth
- Pereiaslav
- Place of death
- New York City
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Solomon
- Family name
- Rabinovich
- Child
- Sarah Rabinovich, Marie Waife
- Field of work
- creative and professional writing, Yiddish literature, drama
- Occupation
- playwright, writer, film screenwriter, humorist, novelist, satirical novelist
- Citizenship
- Russian Empire, United States
- Native language
- Yiddish
- birth name
- Шолом Нохумович Рабинович
- cause of death
- tuberculosis
- contributed to creative work
- Song of Songs
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron, Leksikon Ofek le-sifrut yeladim, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 8
- documentation files at
- SAPA Foundation, Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts
- manner of death
- natural causes
- medical condition
- tuberculosis
- name in native language
- שלום עליכם
- notable work
- Tevye the Milkman, The Bloody Hoax, Menahem-Mendl, Motl, Peysi the Cantor's Son, Stempenyu: A Jewish Novel, Wandering Stars, It's Hard to be a Jew, Q135455284, Q135465516, Scattered Far and Wide, Q135465073, Q135468574
- place of burial
- Mount Carmel Cemetery
- relative
- Bel Kaufman, Ben Zion Goldberg
- topic's main category
- Category:Sholem Aleichem
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