September 12, 2006
Sholom Aleichem
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Sholom Aleichem is best known for his humorous tales of life among the poverty-ridden and oppressed Russian Jews of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. An impassioned advocate of the Yiddish language, he did much to promote Yiddish writers and was the first to write children's literature in Yiddish. He wrote, "Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor." His stories about Tevye the Milkman served as the basis for what famous musical?
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