Sholem Aleichem

Author

(1859 – 1916) · Eastern Europe

Ukrainian-born Yiddish author considered one of the great writers of Jewish literature, often called the Yiddish Mark Twain. His stories about Tevye the Dairyman became the basis for the musical Fiddler on the Roof. He wrote primarily about the shtetl life of Eastern European Jews at the turn of the twentieth century.