Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich, better known under his pen name Sholem Aleichem Yiddish and Hebrew: éÃÅÃâ¢ÃÂþâÃÅÃâ¢ÃâºÃÂââ¬Â¬, also spelled éÃÂÃÅâàÃÂÃÅÃâ¢Ãâ¢ÃâºÃ¢ÃÂââ¬Â¬ in Yiddish; Russian and Ukrainian: èþÃÂûþü-ÃÂûõÃÂùÃâ¦ÃµÃ¼ March 2 1859 ââ¬â 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.
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