Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
Gossip is nature's telephone.
Sholom Aleichem Writer
- Gender: Male
- Citizenship: United States
- Born: Mar 2, 1859
- Died: May 13, 1916
Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich, better known under his pen name Sholem Aleichem, was a leading Yiddish author and playwright from Ukraine. 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.