Sholem Aleichem

leading Yiddish author and playwright.

Lived from: 1859-1916

Category: Writers (Contemporary)

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  Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

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  A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.

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  No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you.

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  The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.

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  Gossip is nature's telephone.

About Sholem Aleichem

Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich, better known under his pen name Sholem Aleichem (March 2  1859 – May 13, 1916), 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.

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