List of Famous people named Sholem

Here are some famous Sholems:

Sholem Aleichem

Шолом Нохумович Рабинович

First Name Sholem

Died on May 13, 1916

Born in Ukraine, Kyiv Oblast

Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich, better known under his pen name Sholem Aleichem, was a leading Yiddish author and playwright. The 1964 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 שלום עליכם literally means "[May] peace [be] upon you!", and is a greeting in traditional Hebrew and Yiddish.

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Sholem Asch

First Name Sholem

Died on July 10, 1957

Born in Poland, Łódź Voivodeship

Sholem Asch, also written Shalom Ash, was a Polish-Jewish novelist, dramatist, and essayist in the Yiddish language who settled in the United States.

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