12020-08-05T11:47:14-07:00Isabella Buzynski4c5090420af98824ad786b6dac1f314b9e9f95a8310402plain2020-08-05T11:47:45-07:00Isabella Buzynski4c5090420af98824ad786b6dac1f314b9e9f95a8Sholem Aleichem, the pen name of Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich (1859 -1916), was a leading Yiddish author and playwright. The Hebrew phrase שלום עליכם (shalom aleichem) literally means "[May] peace [be] upon you!", and is a greeting in traditional Hebrew and Yiddish. The 1964 musical Fiddler on the Roof wasbased on his stories about Tevye the Dairyman.