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Shalom aleichem (;^[1][2] Hebrew: שָׁלוֹם עֲלֵיכֶם, šālōm ʿalēḵem; Hebrew pronunciation: [ʃaˈloːm ʕaleːˈxem]) is a spoken greeting in Hebrew, meaning «peace be upon you». The appropriate response is aleichem shalom («unto you peace») (Hebrew: עֲלֵיכֶם שָׁלוֹם).^[3][4] The plural form «עֲלֵיכֶם‎» is used even when addressing one person.

This form of greeting is traditional among Jews throughout the world. The greeting is more common among Ashkenazi Jews.

History[edit]

Biblical characters greet each other with šālōm lǝkā (šālōm to you, m. singular) or šālōm lākem (plural).

Šālōm ʿālēkā (šālōm upon you, m. singular) is first attested in the Scroll of Blessings for the First Month (before 30 BCE), a Dead Sea Scroll, where it is spelled, in their manner, with a final He.

The plural šālōm ʿălēkem first appears in the Jerusalem Talmud (c. 400 CE), always with a plural object. It occurs there six times and the response is to repeat šālōm ʿălēkem.

Šālōm ʿālēkā appears many times in the Talmud Bavli (c. 500 CE), where the response is to repeat šālōm ʿālēkā.

The inverted response ʿālēkā šālōm (upon you šālōm, m. singular) is first attested in the Midrash Abba Gorion (before 1050 CE), in its gloss on Esther 3:5:

«What did Haman do when he passed by and Mordechai did not rise to greet him?^[a] He came from one side and made as if Mordechai had greeted him,^[b] saying ‘ʿālēkā šālōm,’ but Mordechai replied, ‘the Lord says there is no šālōm for the wicked.Isaiah 48–22‘»

The plural greeting and response became common among European Jews in the second half of the next millennium, as the use of plural forms to denote respect was imported from French and German.^[5]

Other religions[edit]

Further information: Š-L-M

Many religions share cognates to this greeting.

The related Arabic variation as-salāmuʿalaikum («peace be upon you», ٱلسَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُم in Arabic), is used by Muslims of many language and ethnic backgrounds. The appropriate response is Wa alaikumus-salaam («and unto you peace», وَعَلَيْكُمُ ٱلسَّلَام). As-salāmu alaykum and its variants are also used by Arabs of different religions as a greeting. Aramaic and Classical Syriac use Shlama ‘allāwkhon (ܫܠܡܐ ܥܠܘܟ݂ܘܢ), which means «peace on you».

Within the Catholic and Orthodox Churches, Peace be with you (in Greek: «Εἰρήνη σoι», in Latin: «Pax vobiscum») is the initial liturgical greeting by a bishop or priest during divine services. In Mass, Catholic priests who are not bishops say «The Lord be with you.» The response is «And with your spirit.» A somewhat similar greeting used within the Mass by bishops and priests is «The peace of the Lord be with you always.» In Orthodox Church, the greeting is always the same: Peace be with you.

Similarly, «Peace be with you» is used within Anglican liturgies of the Episcopal Church and other Anglican churches, with the response being «And also with you.» The same is true of Lutheran churches, some Presbyterian and Reformed churches, such as the Presbyterian Church and the Church of the Brethren.

See also[edit]

• Shalom
• As-salamu alaykum
• Salaam

References[edit]

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Shalom aleichem (;^[1][2] Hebrew: שָׁלוֹם עֲלֵיכֶם, šālōm ʿalēḵem; Hebrew pronunciation: [ʃaˈloːm ʕaleːˈxem]) is a spoken greeting in Hebrew, meaning «peace be upon you». The appropriate response is aleichem shalom («unto you peace») (Hebrew: עֲלֵיכֶם שָׁלוֹם).^[3][4] The plural form «עֲלֵיכֶם‎» is used even when addressing one person.

This form of greeting is traditional among Jews throughout the world. The greeting is more common among Ashkenazi Jews.

History[edit]

Biblical characters greet each other with šālōm lǝkā (šālōm to you, m. singular) or šālōm lākem (plural).

Šālōm ʿālēkā (šālōm upon you, m. singular) is first attested in the Scroll of Blessings for the First Month (before 30 BCE), a Dead Sea Scroll, where it is spelled, in their manner, with a final He.

The plural šālōm ʿălēkem first appears in the Jerusalem Talmud (c. 400 CE), always with a plural object. It occurs there six times and the response is to repeat šālōm ʿălēkem.

Šālōm ʿālēkā appears many times in the Talmud Bavli (c. 500 CE), where the response is to repeat šālōm ʿālēkā.

The inverted response ʿālēkā šālōm (upon you šālōm, m. singular) is first attested in the Midrash Abba Gorion (before 1050 CE), in its gloss on Esther 3:5:

«What did Haman do when he passed by and Mordechai did not rise to greet him?^[a] He came from one side and made as if Mordechai had greeted him,^[b] saying ‘ʿālēkā šālōm,’ but Mordechai replied, ‘the Lord says there is no šālōm for the wicked.Isaiah 48–22‘»

The plural greeting and response became common among European Jews in the second half of the next millennium, as the use of plural forms to denote respect was imported from French and German.^[5]

Other religions[edit]

Further information: Š-L-M

Many religions share cognates to this greeting.

The related Arabic variation as-salāmuʿalaikum («peace be upon you», ٱلسَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُم in Arabic), is used by Muslims of many language and ethnic backgrounds. The appropriate response is Wa alaikumus-salaam («and unto you peace», وَعَلَيْكُمُ ٱلسَّلَام). As-salāmu alaykum and its variants are also used by Arabs of different religions as a greeting. Aramaic and Classical Syriac use Shlama ‘allāwkhon (ܫܠܡܐ ܥܠܘܟ݂ܘܢ), which means «peace on you».

Within the Catholic and Orthodox Churches, Peace be with you (in Greek: «Εἰρήνη σoι», in Latin: «Pax vobiscum») is the initial liturgical greeting by a bishop or priest during divine services. In Mass, Catholic priests who are not bishops say «The Lord be with you.» The response is «And with your spirit.» A somewhat similar greeting used within the Mass by bishops and priests is «The peace of the Lord be with you always.» In Orthodox Church, the greeting is always the same: Peace be with you.

Similarly, «Peace be with you» is used within Anglican liturgies of the Episcopal Church and other Anglican churches, with the response being «And also with you.» The same is true of Lutheran churches, some Presbyterian and Reformed churches, such as the Presbyterian Church and the Church of the Brethren.

See also[edit]

• Shalom
• As-salamu alaykum
• Salaam

References[edit]

Sholem Aleichem
Sholem Aleichem, 1907
Born	Solomon-Oleksii Naumovich Rabinovich March 2 [O.S. February 18] 1859 Pereiaslav, Russian Empire
Died	May 13, 1916 (aged 57) New York City, U.S.
Pen name	Sholem Aleichem (Yiddish: שלום עליכם)
Occupation	Writer
Language	Yiddish
Genre	Novels, short stories, plays
Literary movement	Yiddish revival
Signature

Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich (Соломон Наумович Рабинович), better known under his pen name Sholem Aleichem (Yiddish and Hebrew: שלום עליכם, also spelled שאָלעם־אלייכעם in Soviet Yiddish, [ˈʃɔləm aˈlɛjxəm]; Russian and Ukrainian: Шо́лом-Але́йхем) (March 2 [O.S. February 18] 1859 – May 13, 1916), was a Yiddish author and playwright who lived in the Russian Empire and in the United States.^[1] The 1964 musical Fiddler on the Roof, based on Aleichem’s 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 (shalom aleichem) literally means «[May] peace [be] upon you!», and is a greeting in traditional Hebrew and Yiddish.^[2]

Biography[edit]

Solomon Naumovich (Sholom Nohumovich) Rabinovich (Russian: Соломо́н Нау́мович (Шо́лом Но́хумович) Рабино́вич) was born in 1859 in Pereiaslav and grew up in the nearby shtetl of Voronkiv [uk], in the Poltava Governorate of the Russian Empire (now in the Kyiv Oblast of central Ukraine).^[3] (Voronkiv has become the prototype of Aleichem’s Kasrilevka.^[4]) His father, Menachem-Nukhem Rabinovich, was a rich merchant at that time.^[5] However, a failed business affair plunged the family into poverty and Solomon Rabinovich grew up in reduced circumstances.^[5] When he was 13 years old, the family moved back to Pereiaslav, where his mother, Chaye-Esther, died in a cholera epidemic.^[6]

Sholem Aleichem’s first venture into writing was an alphabetic glossary of the epithets used by his stepmother. At the age of fifteen, he composed a Jewish version of the novel Robinson Crusoe. He adopted the pseudonym Sholem Aleichem, a Yiddish variant of the Hebrew expression shalom aleichem, meaning «peace be with you» and typically used as a greeting.

In 1876, after graduating from school in Pereiaslav, he began to work as a teacher. During 1877-1880 in Sofijka village, Bohuslav region, he spent three years tutoring a wealthy landowner’s daughter,^[7] Olga (Hodel) Loev (1865–1942).^[8] From 1880 to 1883 he served as crown rabbi in Lubny.^[9]

On May 12, 1883, he and Olga married, against the wishes of her father, whose estate they inherited a few years later. Their first child, a daughter named Ernestina (Tissa), was born in 1884. In 1890, Sholem Aleichem lost their entire fortune in stock speculation and fled from his creditors.^[10] Daughter Lyalya (Lili) was born in 1887. As Lyalya Kaufman, she became a Hebrew writer. (Lyalya’s daughter Bel Kaufman, also a writer, was the author of Up the Down Staircase, which was also made into a successful film.) A third daughter, Emma, was born in 1888. In 1889, Olga gave birth to a son. They named him Elimelech, after Olga’s father, but at home they called him Misha. Daughter Marusi (who would one day publish «My Father, Sholom Aleichem» under her married name Marie Waife-Goldberg) was born in 1892. A final child, a son named Nochum (Numa) after Solomon’s father was born in 1901 (under the name Norman Raeben he became a painter and an influential art teacher).

After witnessing the pogroms that swept through southern Russian Empire in 1905, including Kyiv, Sholem Aleichem left Kyiv (which was fictionalized as Yehupetz) and immigrated to New York City, where he arrived in 1906. His family^{[clarification needed]} set up house in Geneva, Switzerland, but when he saw he could not afford to maintain two households, he joined them in Geneva in 1908. Despite his great popularity, he was forced to take up an exhausting schedule of lecturing to make ends meet. In July 1908, during a reading tour in Russia, Sholem Aleichem collapsed on a train going through Baranowicze. He was diagnosed with a relapse of acute hemorrhagic tuberculosis and spent two months convalescing in the town’s hospital. He later described the incident as «meeting his majesty, the Angel of Death, face to face», and claimed it as the catalyst for writing his autobiography, Funem yarid [From the Fair].^[3] He thus missed the first Conference for the Yiddish Language, held in 1908 in Czernovitz; his colleague and fellow Yiddish activist Nathan Birnbaum went in his place.^[11]

Sholem Aleichem spent the next four years living as a semi-invalid. During this period the family was largely supported by donations from friends and admirers (among his friends and acquaintances were fellow Yiddish authors I. L. Peretz, Jacob Dinezon, Mordecai Spector, and Noach Pryłucki). In 1909, in celebration of his 25th Jubilee as a writer, his friend and colleague Jacob Dinezon spearheaded a committee with Dr. Gershon Levine, Abraham Podlishevsky, and Noach Pryłucki to buy back the publishing rights to Sholem Aleichem’s works from various publishers for his sole use in order to provide him with a steady income.^[12] At a time when Sholem Aleichem was ill and struggling financially, this proved to be an invaluable gift, and Sholem Aleichem expressed his gratitude in a thank you letter in which he wrote,

“If I tried to tell you a hundredth part of the way I feel about you, I know that that would be sheer profanation. If I am fated to live a few years longer than I have been expecting, I shall doubtless be able to say that it’s your fault, yours and that of all the other friends who have done so much to carry out your idea of ‘the redemption of the imprisoned.’”^[13]

— Sholem Aleichem

Sholem Aleichem moved to New York City again with his family in 1914. The family lived at first in Harlem at 110 Lenox Avenue (at 116th Street) and later moved to 968 Kelly Street in the Bronx. His son, Misha, ill with tuberculosis, was not permitted entry under United States immigration laws and remained in Switzerland with his sister Emma.

Sholem Aleichem died at his Bronx apartment in 1916. He is buried in the main (old) section of Mount Carmel Cemetery in Queens, New York City.^[14]

Literary career[edit]

Like his contemporaries Mendele Mocher Sforim, I.L. Peretz, and Jacob Dinezon, Sholem Rabinovitch started writing in Hebrew, as well as in Russian. In 1883, when he was 24 years old, he published his first Yiddish story, צוויי שטיינער Tsvey Shteyner («Two Stones»), using for the first time the pseudonym Sholem Aleichem.

By 1890 he was a central figure in Yiddish literature, the vernacular language of nearly all East European Jews, and produced over forty volumes in Yiddish. It was often derogatorily called «jargon», but Sholem Aleichem used this term in an entirely non-pejorative sense.

Apart from his own literary output, Sholem Aleichem used his personal fortune to encourage other Yiddish writers. In 1888–89, he put out two issues of an almanac, די ייִדישע פאָלקסביבליאָטעק Di Yidishe Folksbibliotek («The Yiddish Public Library») which gave important exposure to young Yiddish writers.

In 1890, after he lost his entire fortune, he could not afford to print the almanac’s third issue, which had been edited but was subsequently never printed.

Tevye the Dairyman, in Yiddish טבֿיה דער מילכיקער Tevye der Milchiker, was first published in 1894.

Over the next few years, while continuing to write in Yiddish, he also wrote in Russian for an Odessa newspaper and for Voskhod, the leading Russian Jewish publication of the time, as well as in Hebrew for Ha-melitz, and for an anthology edited by YH Ravnitzky. It was during this period that Sholem Aleichem contracted tuberculosis.

In August 1904, Sholem Aleichem edited הילף : א זאַמלבוך פיר ליטעראטור אונ קונסט Hilf: a Zaml-Bukh fir Literatur un Kunst («Help: An Anthology for Literature and Art»; Warsaw, 1904) and himself translated three stories submitted by Tolstoy (Esarhaddon, King of Assyria; Work, Death and Sickness; The Three Questions) as well as contributions by other prominent Russian writers, including Chekhov, in aid of the victims of the Kishinev pogrom.

Critical reception[edit]

Sholem Aleichem’s narratives were notable for the naturalness of his characters’ speech and the accuracy of his descriptions of shtetl life. Early critics focused on the cheerfulness of the characters, interpreted as a way of coping with adversity. Later critics saw a tragic side in his writing.^[15] He was often referred to as the «Jewish Mark Twain» because of the two authors’ similar writing styles and use of pen names. Both authors wrote for adults and children and lectured extensively in Europe and the United States. When Twain heard of the writer called «the Jewish Mark Twain,» he replied «please tell him that I am the American Sholem Aleichem.»^[16]

Beliefs and activism[edit]

Sholem Aleichem was an impassioned advocate of Yiddish as a national Jewish language, which he felt should be accorded the same status and respect as other modern European languages. He did not stop with what came to be called «Yiddishism», but devoted himself to the cause of Zionism as well. Many of his writings^[17] present the Zionist case. In 1888, he became a member of Hovevei Zion. In 1907, he served as an American delegate to the Eighth Zionist Congress held in The Hague.

Sholem Aleichem had a fear of the number 13. His manuscripts never had a page 13; he numbered the thirteenth pages of his manuscripts as 12a.^[18] Though it has been written that even his headstone carries the date of his death as «May 12a, 1916»,^[19] his headstone reads the dates of his birth and death in Hebrew, the 26th of Adar and the 10th of Iyar, respectively.

Death[edit]

Sholem Aleichem died in New York on May 13, 1916 from tuberculosis and diabetes,^[20] aged 57, while working on his last novel, Motl, Peysi the Cantor’s Son, and was buried at Old Mount Carmel cemetery in Queens.^[21] At the time, his funeral was one of the largest in New York City history, with an estimated 100,000 mourners.^[22][23] The next day, his will was printed in the New York Times and was read into the Congressional Record of the United States.

Commemoration and legacy[edit]

Sholem Aleichem’s will contained detailed instructions to family and friends with regard to burial arrangements and marking his yahrtzeit.

He told his friends and family to gather, «read my will, and also select one of my stories, one of the very merry ones, and recite it in whatever language is most intelligible to you.» «Let my name be recalled with laughter,» he added, «or not at all.» The celebrations continue to the present day, and, in recent years, have been held at the Brotherhood Synagogue on Gramercy Park South in New York City, where they are open to the public.^[24]

He composed the text to be engraved on his tombstone in Yiddish, given here in transliteration:

Do ligt a yid a posheter Geshriben yidish-daitsh far vayber Un faren prosten folk hot er geven a humorist a shrayber Di gantse lebn umgelozt geshlogen mit der welt kapores Di gantse welt hot gut gemakht Un er — oy vey — geveyn oyf tsores Un dafka demolt geven der oylem hot gelacht geklutchet un fleg zikh fleyen Doch er gekrenkt dos veys nor got Besod, az keyner zol nit zeen

Here lies a Jew a simple one, Wrote Yiddish-German (translations) for women and for the regular folk, was a writer of humor He circled the world like Kapparot The whole world does well, and he, oh my, was in trouble. But when the world is laughing applauding and slapping their knee, he sickened — only God knows this in secret, so no-one sees.

In 1997, a monument dedicated to Sholem Aleichem was erected in Kyiv; another was erected in 2001 in Moscow.

The main street of Birobidzhan is named after Sholem Aleichem;^[25] streets were named after him also in cities in Ukraine, including Kyiv, Odessa, Vinnytsia, Lviv, and Zhytomyr. In New York City in 1996, East 33rd Street between Park and Madison Avenue is additionally named «Sholem Aleichem Place». Many streets in Israel are named after him.

Postage stamps of Sholem Aleichem were issued by Israel (Scott #154, 1959); the Soviet Union (Scott #2164, 1959); Romania (Scott #1268, 1959); and Ukraine (Scott #758, 2009).

An impact crater on the planet Mercury also bears his name.^[26]

On March 2, 2009, 150 years after his birth, the National Bank of Ukraine issued an anniversary coin depicting and celebrating Aleichem.^[27]

Vilnius, Lithuania has a Jewish school named after him and in Melbourne, Australia a Yiddish school, Sholem Aleichem College is named after him.^[28] Several Jewish schools in Argentina were also named after him.^{[citation needed]}

In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil a library named BIBSA – Biblioteca Sholem Aleichem was founded in 1915 as a Zionist institution by a local Jewish group. Next year, in 1916 same group that created BIBSA, founded a Jewish school named Escola Sholem Aleichem that was closed in 1997. BIBSA had a very active theatrical program in Yiddish for more than 50 years since its foundation and consistently performed Sholem Aleichem plays. In 1947 BIBSA became Associação Sholem Aleichem, under which name it continues to exist. Both the library and club became communist institutions due to a normal transition of power in the founding group, although non-communist members left to found their own school, Colégio Eliezer Steinbarg, in 1956. It is named after the first director of Escola Sholem Aleichem, a Jewish writer born in Romania who immigrated to Brazil.^[29][30]

In the Bronx, New York, a housing complex called The Shalom Aleichem Houses^[31] was built by Yiddish speaking immigrants in the 1920s, and was recently restored by new owners to its original grandeur. The Shalom Alecheim Houses are part of a proposed historic district in the area.

On May 13, 2016 a Sholem Aleichem website was launched to mark the 100th anniversary of Sholem Aleichem’s death.^[32] The website is a partnership between Sholem Aleichem’s family,^[33] his biographer Professor Jeremy Dauber,^[34] Citizen Film, Columbia University’s Center for Israel and Jewish Studies,^[35] The Covenant Foundation, and The Yiddish Book Center.^[36] The website features interactive maps and timelines,^[37] recommended readings,^[38] as well as a list of centennial celebration events taking place worldwide.^[39] The website also features resources for educators.^[40][41][42]

Hertz Grosbard recited many of his works in so called «word concerts». A reading in Yiddish of his monologue If I Were a Rothschild and several others can be found on the Grosbard Project.

Writer’s brother Wolf Rabinovich published the memoir «My Brother Sholom Aleichem» in Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, in 1939.^[43]

Sholem Aleichem’s granddaughter, Bel Kaufman, by his daughter Lala (Lyalya), was an American author, most widely known for her novel, Up the Down Staircase, published in 1964, which was adapted to the stage and also made into a motion picture in 1967, starring Sandy Dennis.

Published works[edit]

English-language collections[edit]

• Tevye’s Daughters: Collected Stories of Sholom Aleichem by Sholem Aleichem, transl Frances Butwin, illus Ben Shahn, NY: Crown, 1949. The stories which form the basis for Fiddler on the Roof.
• The Best of Sholom Aleichem, edited by R. Wisse, I. Howe (originally published 1979), Walker and Co., 1991, ISBN 0-8027-2645-3.
• Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories, translated by H. Halkin (originally published 1987), Schocken Books, 1996, ISBN 0-8052-1069-5.
• Nineteen to the Dozen: Monologues and Bits and Bobs of Other Things, translated by Ted Gorelick, Syracuse Univ Press, 1998, ISBN 0-8156-0477-7.
• A Treasury of Sholom Aleichem Children’s Stories, translated by Aliza Shevrin, Jason Aronson, 1996, ISBN 1-56821-926-1.
• Inside Kasrilovka, Three Stories, translated by I. Goldstick, Schocken Books, 1948 (variously reprinted)
• The Old Country, translated by Julius & Frances Butwin, J B H of Peconic, 1999, ISBN 1-929068-21-2.
• Stories and Satires, translated by Curt Leviant, Sholom Aleichem Family Publications, 1999, ISBN 1-929068-20-4.
• Selected Works of Sholem-Aleykhem, edited by Marvin Zuckerman & Marion Herbst (Volume II of «The Three Great Classic Writers of Modern Yiddish Literature»), Joseph Simon Pangloss Press, 1994, ISBN 0-934710-24-4.
• Some Laughter, Some Tears, translated by Curt Leviant, Paperback Library, 1969, Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 68–25445.

Autobiography[edit]

• פונעם יאריד Funem yarid, written 1914–1916, translated as The Great Fair by Tamara Kahana, Noonday Press, 1955; translated by Curt Leviant as From the Fair, Viking, 1986, ISBN 0-14-008830-X.

Novels[edit]

• Stempenyu: A Jewish Novel, originally published in his Folksbibliotek, adapted 1905 for the play Jewish Daughters.
• Yossele Solovey (1889, published in his Folksbibliotek)
• Tevye’s Daughters, translated by F. Butwin (originally published 1949), Crown, 1959, ISBN 0-517-50710-2.
• Mottel the Cantor’s son. Originally written in Yiddish. English version: Henry Schuman, Inc. New York 1953, Translated by Tamara Kahana (6a), the author’s grand daughter.
• In The Storm
• Wandering Stars
• Marienbad, translated by Aliza Shevrin (1982, G.P. Putnam Sons, New York) from original Yiddish manuscript copyrighted by Olga Rabinowitz in 1917
• The Bloody Hoax
• Menahem-Mendl, translated as The Adventures of Menahem-Mendl, translated by Tamara Kahana, Sholom Aleichem Family Publications, 1969, ISBN 1-929068-02-6.

Young adult literature[edit]

• The Bewitched Tailor, Sholom Aleichem Family Publications, 1999, ISBN 1-929068-19-0.

Plays[edit]

• The Doctor (1887), one-act comedy
• Der get (The Divorce, 1888), one-act comedy
• Di asife (The Assembly, 1889), one-act comedy
• Mazel Tov (1889), one-act play
• Yaknez (1894), a satire on brokers and speculators
• Tsezeyt un tseshpreyt (Scattered Far and Wide, 1903), comedy
• Agentn (Agents, 1908), one-act comedy
• Yidishe tekhter (Jewish Daughters, 1905) drama, adaptation of his early novel Stempenyu
• Di goldgreber (The Golddiggers, 1907), comedy
• Shver tsu zayn a yid (Hard to Be a Jew / If I Were You, 1914)
• Dos groyse gevins (The Big Lottery / The Jackpot, 1916)
• Tevye der milkhiker, (Tevye the Milkman, 1917, performed posthumously)

Stage[edit]

• «The World of Sholom Aleichem

Television[edit]

«The World of Sholom Aleichem»

Airdate: December 14, 1959[2]

Channel: WNTA-TV Channel 13, New York City

• Written by Arnold Perl
• Directed by Don Richardson
• Produced by David Suskind & Henry T. Weinstein

Included 3 short tele-plays:

• «A Tale of Chelm» a folktale (author unknown)
• «Bontche Schweig» by I.L. Peretz
• «The High School» (aka «Gymnasium») by Sholem Aleichem.

Starring:

• Gertrude Berg as Hannele (‘The High School’)
• Morris Carnovsky as Rabbi David (‘A Tale of Chelm’); Presiding Angel (‘Bontche Shveig’}; Aaron Katz (‘The High School’)
• Sam Levene as Narrator
• Zero Mostel as the Melamed (‘A Tale of Chelm’)
• Nancy Walker as Rifkele (‘A Tale of Chelm’)
• Charlotte Rae as Angel (‘A Tale of Chelm’)
• Lee Grant as Avenging Angel (‘Bontche Shveig’)
• Jack Gilford as Bontshe Shveig (‘Bontche Shveig’)
• Henry Lascoe as Dodi the Innkeeper (‘A Tale of Chelm’); Principal (‘The High School’)

Miscellany[edit]

• Jewish Children, translated by Hannah Berman, William Morrow & Co, 1987, ISBN 0-688-84120-1.
• numerous stories in Russian, published in Voskhod (1891–1892)

See also[edit]

• 1918 film: «Bloody Joke» (Кровавая шутка), based on the works of Sholem Aleichem, by director and screenwriter Alexander Arkatov

References[edit]

Further reading[edit]

• My Father, Sholom Aleichem, by Marie Waife-Goldberg
• Tradition!: The Highly Improbable, Ultimately Triumphant Broadway-to-Hollywood Story of Fiddler on the Roof, the World’s Most Beloved Musical, by Barbara Isenberg, (St. Martin’s Press, 2014.)
• Liptzin, Sol, A History of Yiddish Literature, Jonathan David Publishers, Middle Village, NY, 1972, ISBN 0-8246-0124-6. 66 et. seq.
• A Bridge of Longing, by David G. Roskies
• The World of Sholom Aleichem, by Maurice Samuel

External links[edit]

• The Official Sholem Aleichem Website
• Works by Sholem Aleichem at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Sholem Aleichem at Internet Archive
• Works by Sholem Aleichem at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
• Haaretz article A stenographer for his people’s soul
• The complete works of Sholem Aleichem (searchable and editable; Yiddish letters only).

Sholem Aleichem
Sholem Aleichem, 1907
Born	Solomon-Oleksii Naumovich Rabinovich March 2 [O.S. February 18] 1859 Pereiaslav, Russian Empire
Died	May 13, 1916 (aged 57) New York City, U.S.
Pen name	Sholem Aleichem (Yiddish: שלום עליכם)
Occupation	Writer
Language	Yiddish
Genre	Novels, short stories, plays
Literary movement	Yiddish revival
Signature

Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich (Соломон Наумович Рабинович), better known under his pen name Sholem Aleichem (Yiddish and Hebrew: שלום עליכם, also spelled שאָלעם־אלייכעם in Soviet Yiddish, [ˈʃɔləm aˈlɛjxəm]; Russian and Ukrainian: Шо́лом-Але́йхем) (March 2 [O.S. February 18] 1859 – May 13, 1916), was a Yiddish author and playwright who lived in the Russian Empire and in the United States.^[1] The 1964 musical Fiddler on the Roof, based on Aleichem’s 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 (shalom aleichem) literally means «[May] peace [be] upon you!», and is a greeting in traditional Hebrew and Yiddish.^[2]

Biography[edit]

Solomon Naumovich (Sholom Nohumovich) Rabinovich (Russian: Соломо́н Нау́мович (Шо́лом Но́хумович) Рабино́вич) was born in 1859 in Pereiaslav and grew up in the nearby shtetl of Voronkiv [uk], in the Poltava Governorate of the Russian Empire (now in the Kyiv Oblast of central Ukraine).^[3] (Voronkiv has become the prototype of Aleichem’s Kasrilevka.^[4]) His father, Menachem-Nukhem Rabinovich, was a rich merchant at that time.^[5] However, a failed business affair plunged the family into poverty and Solomon Rabinovich grew up in reduced circumstances.^[5] When he was 13 years old, the family moved back to Pereiaslav, where his mother, Chaye-Esther, died in a cholera epidemic.^[6]

Sholem Aleichem’s first venture into writing was an alphabetic glossary of the epithets used by his stepmother. At the age of fifteen, he composed a Jewish version of the novel Robinson Crusoe. He adopted the pseudonym Sholem Aleichem, a Yiddish variant of the Hebrew expression shalom aleichem, meaning «peace be with you» and typically used as a greeting.

In 1876, after graduating from school in Pereiaslav, he began to work as a teacher. During 1877-1880 in Sofijka village, Bohuslav region, he spent three years tutoring a wealthy landowner’s daughter,^[7] Olga (Hodel) Loev (1865–1942).^[8] From 1880 to 1883 he served as crown rabbi in Lubny.^[9]

On May 12, 1883, he and Olga married, against the wishes of her father, whose estate they inherited a few years later. Their first child, a daughter named Ernestina (Tissa), was born in 1884. In 1890, Sholem Aleichem lost their entire fortune in stock speculation and fled from his creditors.^[10] Daughter Lyalya (Lili) was born in 1887. As Lyalya Kaufman, she became a Hebrew writer. (Lyalya’s daughter Bel Kaufman, also a writer, was the author of Up the Down Staircase, which was also made into a successful film.) A third daughter, Emma, was born in 1888. In 1889, Olga gave birth to a son. They named him Elimelech, after Olga’s father, but at home they called him Misha. Daughter Marusi (who would one day publish «My Father, Sholom Aleichem» under her married name Marie Waife-Goldberg) was born in 1892. A final child, a son named Nochum (Numa) after Solomon’s father was born in 1901 (under the name Norman Raeben he became a painter and an influential art teacher).

After witnessing the pogroms that swept through southern Russian Empire in 1905, including Kyiv, Sholem Aleichem left Kyiv (which was fictionalized as Yehupetz) and immigrated to New York City, where he arrived in 1906. His family^{[clarification needed]} set up house in Geneva, Switzerland, but when he saw he could not afford to maintain two households, he joined them in Geneva in 1908. Despite his great popularity, he was forced to take up an exhausting schedule of lecturing to make ends meet. In July 1908, during a reading tour in Russia, Sholem Aleichem collapsed on a train going through Baranowicze. He was diagnosed with a relapse of acute hemorrhagic tuberculosis and spent two months convalescing in the town’s hospital. He later described the incident as «meeting his majesty, the Angel of Death, face to face», and claimed it as the catalyst for writing his autobiography, Funem yarid [From the Fair].^[3] He thus missed the first Conference for the Yiddish Language, held in 1908 in Czernovitz; his colleague and fellow Yiddish activist Nathan Birnbaum went in his place.^[11]

Sholem Aleichem spent the next four years living as a semi-invalid. During this period the family was largely supported by donations from friends and admirers (among his friends and acquaintances were fellow Yiddish authors I. L. Peretz, Jacob Dinezon, Mordecai Spector, and Noach Pryłucki). In 1909, in celebration of his 25th Jubilee as a writer, his friend and colleague Jacob Dinezon spearheaded a committee with Dr. Gershon Levine, Abraham Podlishevsky, and Noach Pryłucki to buy back the publishing rights to Sholem Aleichem’s works from various publishers for his sole use in order to provide him with a steady income.^[12] At a time when Sholem Aleichem was ill and struggling financially, this proved to be an invaluable gift, and Sholem Aleichem expressed his gratitude in a thank you letter in which he wrote,

“If I tried to tell you a hundredth part of the way I feel about you, I know that that would be sheer profanation. If I am fated to live a few years longer than I have been expecting, I shall doubtless be able to say that it’s your fault, yours and that of all the other friends who have done so much to carry out your idea of ‘the redemption of the imprisoned.’”^[13]

— Sholem Aleichem

Sholem Aleichem moved to New York City again with his family in 1914. The family lived at first in Harlem at 110 Lenox Avenue (at 116th Street) and later moved to 968 Kelly Street in the Bronx. His son, Misha, ill with tuberculosis, was not permitted entry under United States immigration laws and remained in Switzerland with his sister Emma.

Sholem Aleichem died at his Bronx apartment in 1916. He is buried in the main (old) section of Mount Carmel Cemetery in Queens, New York City.^[14]

Literary career[edit]

Like his contemporaries Mendele Mocher Sforim, I.L. Peretz, and Jacob Dinezon, Sholem Rabinovitch started writing in Hebrew, as well as in Russian. In 1883, when he was 24 years old, he published his first Yiddish story, צוויי שטיינער Tsvey Shteyner («Two Stones»), using for the first time the pseudonym Sholem Aleichem.

By 1890 he was a central figure in Yiddish literature, the vernacular language of nearly all East European Jews, and produced over forty volumes in Yiddish. It was often derogatorily called «jargon», but Sholem Aleichem used this term in an entirely non-pejorative sense.

Apart from his own literary output, Sholem Aleichem used his personal fortune to encourage other Yiddish writers. In 1888–89, he put out two issues of an almanac, די ייִדישע פאָלקסביבליאָטעק Di Yidishe Folksbibliotek («The Yiddish Public Library») which gave important exposure to young Yiddish writers.

In 1890, after he lost his entire fortune, he could not afford to print the almanac’s third issue, which had been edited but was subsequently never printed.

Tevye the Dairyman, in Yiddish טבֿיה דער מילכיקער Tevye der Milchiker, was first published in 1894.

Over the next few years, while continuing to write in Yiddish, he also wrote in Russian for an Odessa newspaper and for Voskhod, the leading Russian Jewish publication of the time, as well as in Hebrew for Ha-melitz, and for an anthology edited by YH Ravnitzky. It was during this period that Sholem Aleichem contracted tuberculosis.

In August 1904, Sholem Aleichem edited הילף : א זאַמלבוך פיר ליטעראטור אונ קונסט Hilf: a Zaml-Bukh fir Literatur un Kunst («Help: An Anthology for Literature and Art»; Warsaw, 1904) and himself translated three stories submitted by Tolstoy (Esarhaddon, King of Assyria; Work, Death and Sickness; The Three Questions) as well as contributions by other prominent Russian writers, including Chekhov, in aid of the victims of the Kishinev pogrom.

Critical reception[edit]

Sholem Aleichem’s narratives were notable for the naturalness of his characters’ speech and the accuracy of his descriptions of shtetl life. Early critics focused on the cheerfulness of the characters, interpreted as a way of coping with adversity. Later critics saw a tragic side in his writing.^[15] He was often referred to as the «Jewish Mark Twain» because of the two authors’ similar writing styles and use of pen names. Both authors wrote for adults and children and lectured extensively in Europe and the United States. When Twain heard of the writer called «the Jewish Mark Twain,» he replied «please tell him that I am the American Sholem Aleichem.»^[16]

Beliefs and activism[edit]

Sholem Aleichem was an impassioned advocate of Yiddish as a national Jewish language, which he felt should be accorded the same status and respect as other modern European languages. He did not stop with what came to be called «Yiddishism», but devoted himself to the cause of Zionism as well. Many of his writings^[17] present the Zionist case. In 1888, he became a member of Hovevei Zion. In 1907, he served as an American delegate to the Eighth Zionist Congress held in The Hague.

Sholem Aleichem had a fear of the number 13. His manuscripts never had a page 13; he numbered the thirteenth pages of his manuscripts as 12a.^[18] Though it has been written that even his headstone carries the date of his death as «May 12a, 1916»,^[19] his headstone reads the dates of his birth and death in Hebrew, the 26th of Adar and the 10th of Iyar, respectively.

Death[edit]

Sholem Aleichem died in New York on May 13, 1916 from tuberculosis and diabetes,^[20] aged 57, while working on his last novel, Motl, Peysi the Cantor’s Son, and was buried at Old Mount Carmel cemetery in Queens.^[21] At the time, his funeral was one of the largest in New York City history, with an estimated 100,000 mourners.^[22][23] The next day, his will was printed in the New York Times and was read into the Congressional Record of the United States.

Commemoration and legacy[edit]

Sholem Aleichem’s will contained detailed instructions to family and friends with regard to burial arrangements and marking his yahrtzeit.

He told his friends and family to gather, «read my will, and also select one of my stories, one of the very merry ones, and recite it in whatever language is most intelligible to you.» «Let my name be recalled with laughter,» he added, «or not at all.» The celebrations continue to the present day, and, in recent years, have been held at the Brotherhood Synagogue on Gramercy Park South in New York City, where they are open to the public.^[24]

He composed the text to be engraved on his tombstone in Yiddish, given here in transliteration:

Do ligt a yid a posheter Geshriben yidish-daitsh far vayber Un faren prosten folk hot er geven a humorist a shrayber Di gantse lebn umgelozt geshlogen mit der welt kapores Di gantse welt hot gut gemakht Un er — oy vey — geveyn oyf tsores Un dafka demolt geven der oylem hot gelacht geklutchet un fleg zikh fleyen Doch er gekrenkt dos veys nor got Besod, az keyner zol nit zeen

Here lies a Jew a simple one, Wrote Yiddish-German (translations) for women and for the regular folk, was a writer of humor He circled the world like Kapparot The whole world does well, and he, oh my, was in trouble. But when the world is laughing applauding and slapping their knee, he sickened — only God knows this in secret, so no-one sees.

In 1997, a monument dedicated to Sholem Aleichem was erected in Kyiv; another was erected in 2001 in Moscow.

The main street of Birobidzhan is named after Sholem Aleichem;^[25] streets were named after him also in cities in Ukraine, including Kyiv, Odessa, Vinnytsia, Lviv, and Zhytomyr. In New York City in 1996, East 33rd Street between Park and Madison Avenue is additionally named «Sholem Aleichem Place». Many streets in Israel are named after him.

Postage stamps of Sholem Aleichem were issued by Israel (Scott #154, 1959); the Soviet Union (Scott #2164, 1959); Romania (Scott #1268, 1959); and Ukraine (Scott #758, 2009).

An impact crater on the planet Mercury also bears his name.^[26]

On March 2, 2009, 150 years after his birth, the National Bank of Ukraine issued an anniversary coin depicting and celebrating Aleichem.^[27]

Vilnius, Lithuania has a Jewish school named after him and in Melbourne, Australia a Yiddish school, Sholem Aleichem College is named after him.^[28] Several Jewish schools in Argentina were also named after him.^{[citation needed]}

In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil a library named BIBSA – Biblioteca Sholem Aleichem was founded in 1915 as a Zionist institution by a local Jewish group. Next year, in 1916 same group that created BIBSA, founded a Jewish school named Escola Sholem Aleichem that was closed in 1997. BIBSA had a very active theatrical program in Yiddish for more than 50 years since its foundation and consistently performed Sholem Aleichem plays. In 1947 BIBSA became Associação Sholem Aleichem, under which name it continues to exist. Both the library and club became communist institutions due to a normal transition of power in the founding group, although non-communist members left to found their own school, Colégio Eliezer Steinbarg, in 1956. It is named after the first director of Escola Sholem Aleichem, a Jewish writer born in Romania who immigrated to Brazil.^[29][30]

In the Bronx, New York, a housing complex called The Shalom Aleichem Houses^[31] was built by Yiddish speaking immigrants in the 1920s, and was recently restored by new owners to its original grandeur. The Shalom Alecheim Houses are part of a proposed historic district in the area.

On May 13, 2016 a Sholem Aleichem website was launched to mark the 100th anniversary of Sholem Aleichem’s death.^[32] The website is a partnership between Sholem Aleichem’s family,^[33] his biographer Professor Jeremy Dauber,^[34] Citizen Film, Columbia University’s Center for Israel and Jewish Studies,^[35] The Covenant Foundation, and The Yiddish Book Center.^[36] The website features interactive maps and timelines,^[37] recommended readings,^[38] as well as a list of centennial celebration events taking place worldwide.^[39] The website also features resources for educators.^[40][41][42]

Hertz Grosbard recited many of his works in so called «word concerts». A reading in Yiddish of his monologue If I Were a Rothschild and several others can be found on the Grosbard Project.

Writer’s brother Wolf Rabinovich published the memoir «My Brother Sholom Aleichem» in Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, in 1939.^[43]

Sholem Aleichem’s granddaughter, Bel Kaufman, by his daughter Lala (Lyalya), was an American author, most widely known for her novel, Up the Down Staircase, published in 1964, which was adapted to the stage and also made into a motion picture in 1967, starring Sandy Dennis.

Published works[edit]

English-language collections[edit]

• Tevye’s Daughters: Collected Stories of Sholom Aleichem by Sholem Aleichem, transl Frances Butwin, illus Ben Shahn, NY: Crown, 1949. The stories which form the basis for Fiddler on the Roof.
• The Best of Sholom Aleichem, edited by R. Wisse, I. Howe (originally published 1979), Walker and Co., 1991, ISBN 0-8027-2645-3.
• Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories, translated by H. Halkin (originally published 1987), Schocken Books, 1996, ISBN 0-8052-1069-5.
• Nineteen to the Dozen: Monologues and Bits and Bobs of Other Things, translated by Ted Gorelick, Syracuse Univ Press, 1998, ISBN 0-8156-0477-7.
• A Treasury of Sholom Aleichem Children’s Stories, translated by Aliza Shevrin, Jason Aronson, 1996, ISBN 1-56821-926-1.
• Inside Kasrilovka, Three Stories, translated by I. Goldstick, Schocken Books, 1948 (variously reprinted)
• The Old Country, translated by Julius & Frances Butwin, J B H of Peconic, 1999, ISBN 1-929068-21-2.
• Stories and Satires, translated by Curt Leviant, Sholom Aleichem Family Publications, 1999, ISBN 1-929068-20-4.
• Selected Works of Sholem-Aleykhem, edited by Marvin Zuckerman & Marion Herbst (Volume II of «The Three Great Classic Writers of Modern Yiddish Literature»), Joseph Simon Pangloss Press, 1994, ISBN 0-934710-24-4.
• Some Laughter, Some Tears, translated by Curt Leviant, Paperback Library, 1969, Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 68–25445.

Autobiography[edit]

• פונעם יאריד Funem yarid, written 1914–1916, translated as The Great Fair by Tamara Kahana, Noonday Press, 1955; translated by Curt Leviant as From the Fair, Viking, 1986, ISBN 0-14-008830-X.

Novels[edit]

• Stempenyu: A Jewish Novel, originally published in his Folksbibliotek, adapted 1905 for the play Jewish Daughters.
• Yossele Solovey (1889, published in his Folksbibliotek)
• Tevye’s Daughters, translated by F. Butwin (originally published 1949), Crown, 1959, ISBN 0-517-50710-2.
• Mottel the Cantor’s son. Originally written in Yiddish. English version: Henry Schuman, Inc. New York 1953, Translated by Tamara Kahana (6a), the author’s grand daughter.
• In The Storm
• Wandering Stars
• Marienbad, translated by Aliza Shevrin (1982, G.P. Putnam Sons, New York) from original Yiddish manuscript copyrighted by Olga Rabinowitz in 1917
• The Bloody Hoax
• Menahem-Mendl, translated as The Adventures of Menahem-Mendl, translated by Tamara Kahana, Sholom Aleichem Family Publications, 1969, ISBN 1-929068-02-6.

Young adult literature[edit]

• The Bewitched Tailor, Sholom Aleichem Family Publications, 1999, ISBN 1-929068-19-0.

Plays[edit]

• The Doctor (1887), one-act comedy
• Der get (The Divorce, 1888), one-act comedy
• Di asife (The Assembly, 1889), one-act comedy
• Mazel Tov (1889), one-act play
• Yaknez (1894), a satire on brokers and speculators
• Tsezeyt un tseshpreyt (Scattered Far and Wide, 1903), comedy
• Agentn (Agents, 1908), one-act comedy
• Yidishe tekhter (Jewish Daughters, 1905) drama, adaptation of his early novel Stempenyu
• Di goldgreber (The Golddiggers, 1907), comedy
• Shver tsu zayn a yid (Hard to Be a Jew / If I Were You, 1914)
• Dos groyse gevins (The Big Lottery / The Jackpot, 1916)
• Tevye der milkhiker, (Tevye the Milkman, 1917, performed posthumously)

Stage[edit]

• «The World of Sholom Aleichem

Television[edit]

«The World of Sholom Aleichem»

Airdate: December 14, 1959[2]

Channel: WNTA-TV Channel 13, New York City

• Written by Arnold Perl
• Directed by Don Richardson
• Produced by David Suskind & Henry T. Weinstein

Included 3 short tele-plays:

• «A Tale of Chelm» a folktale (author unknown)
• «Bontche Schweig» by I.L. Peretz
• «The High School» (aka «Gymnasium») by Sholem Aleichem.

Starring:

• Gertrude Berg as Hannele (‘The High School’)
• Morris Carnovsky as Rabbi David (‘A Tale of Chelm’); Presiding Angel (‘Bontche Shveig’}; Aaron Katz (‘The High School’)
• Sam Levene as Narrator
• Zero Mostel as the Melamed (‘A Tale of Chelm’)
• Nancy Walker as Rifkele (‘A Tale of Chelm’)
• Charlotte Rae as Angel (‘A Tale of Chelm’)
• Lee Grant as Avenging Angel (‘Bontche Shveig’)
• Jack Gilford as Bontshe Shveig (‘Bontche Shveig’)
• Henry Lascoe as Dodi the Innkeeper (‘A Tale of Chelm’); Principal (‘The High School’)

Miscellany[edit]

• Jewish Children, translated by Hannah Berman, William Morrow & Co, 1987, ISBN 0-688-84120-1.
• numerous stories in Russian, published in Voskhod (1891–1892)

See also[edit]

• 1918 film: «Bloody Joke» (Кровавая шутка), based on the works of Sholem Aleichem, by director and screenwriter Alexander Arkatov

References[edit]

Further reading[edit]

• My Father, Sholom Aleichem, by Marie Waife-Goldberg
• Tradition!: The Highly Improbable, Ultimately Triumphant Broadway-to-Hollywood Story of Fiddler on the Roof, the World’s Most Beloved Musical, by Barbara Isenberg, (St. Martin’s Press, 2014.)
• Liptzin, Sol, A History of Yiddish Literature, Jonathan David Publishers, Middle Village, NY, 1972, ISBN 0-8246-0124-6. 66 et. seq.
• A Bridge of Longing, by David G. Roskies
• The World of Sholom Aleichem, by Maurice Samuel

External links[edit]

• The Official Sholem Aleichem Website
• Works by Sholem Aleichem at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Sholem Aleichem at Internet Archive
• Works by Sholem Aleichem at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
• Haaretz article A stenographer for his people’s soul
• The complete works of Sholem Aleichem (searchable and editable; Yiddish letters only).

На иврите большинство слов очень короткие, одно- и двухсложные, но это не делает их легкими для запоминания. Более того, они все похожи друг на друга и, когда нужно быстро вспомнить какое-нибудь стандартное выражение, в голове крутится явно не то, что нужно. Помню, как я все время путал «хаг самеах«, что значит «с праздником!» с каким-то «даг малуах«, что это вообще селёдка. При этом ещё иногда выскакивало «ям амелах«, т.е. «Мертвое море», которое явно не при чем. 

Павел Замир на сайте IsraLove опубликовал подборку таких наиболее  обиходных выражений, которые я перепечатываю здесь (может быть кому-то пригодится) с выделением ударных гласных в ивритских выражениях прописными буквами, несколькими комментариями и выражениями, отмеченными инициалами АТ.   

ШалОм (שלום) – дословно это переводится «Мир», но используется, как приветствие и прощание. Вместо «Здравствуйте» и «До свидания» можно сказать просто «Шалом». (Не путать с ШАлом, ударение на первом слоге, — это имя АТ.)

Шалом алейхЕм (שלום עליכם) – дословно «Мир вам». Чаше используется, чтобы поприветствовать группу людей или выразить дополнительное уважение к собеседнику. 

РаботАй  ве-гверотАй (רבותי וגבירותי) – «Дамы и господа». Употребляется, чтобы торжественно начать речь. На самолетах компании Эль-Аль, командир так обращается к пассажирам. 

Шабат шалом (שבת שלום) – «Мирной субботы». Пожелание, которое евреи говорят друг другу перед субботой. Пожелание мирного шабата.. 

ШанА товА (שנה טובה) – «Хорошего года». Еврейское пожелание с еврейским Новым годом. Можно сказать и на 1-е января, но это не приветствуется.

 ШавУа тов (שבוע טוב) – «Хорошей недели». Подразумевается «Хорошей новой недели». Пожелание, которое говорят в конце выходных. 

Бэ-aцлахА (בהצלחה) — «Удачи». Слова, которые говорят перед важным событием, например, перед экзаменом или выступлением.  

БрухИм а-баИм (ברוכים הבאים) — «Добро пожаловать». (Дословно «Благословен пришедший» — АТ).  С этими словами принимают гостей или встречают друзей в аэропорту. 

Бэ-тэавОн (בתאבון) — Дословно «С аппетитом», но следует понимать, как «Приятного аппетита», ничем не отличается от российского аналога. 

Йом тов (יום טוב) – «Добрый день». Обычно используют при прощании утром или в середине дня, подразумевая «Доброго дня». 

БОкер тов (בוקר טוב) – «Доброе утро» и ничего лишнего. 

Эрев тов (ערב טוב) – «Добрый вечер» — все просто. 

Мазаль тов (מזל טוב) – «Хорошей судьбы» или «Удачи». Эти слова говорят при приятном событии. На день рождения, свадьбу, рождение ребенка и т.п. Особенно хочется отметить, что «мазаль тов» также говорят при мелкой неудаче. Разбилась посуда или потерял небольшую сумму денег. «Мазаль тов» в данном случае будет означать «на удачу», т.е. мелкая неудача обязательно компенсируется большой удачей. 

Ле-хАим (לחיים) – мое любимое. Дословно «За жизнь». Произносят, когда чокаются и означает «Чтобы мы все так жили: долго, весело и счастливо». 

 ЛАйла тов (לילה טוב) – «Спокойной ночи». 

Хаг СамЕах (חג שמח) – Переводится как «Веселого праздника». Говорят всегда, когда хотят поздравить с каким-либо праздником. 

ЛеитраОт (להתראות) – «До свидания» и «До встречи».

ТитхадЕш/титхадшИ (תתחדש/תתחדשי) — «С обновкой!» Говорят при любой покупке: от трусов до автомобиля. С окончанием «И» — при обращении к женщине. Не лишне при этом добавить «мазаль тов!», т.е. «удачи!»(АТ).

Бэ-шаА това (בשעה טובה) — «В добрый час!» Пожелание удачи, благополучия в чем либо, обычно при начинании какого либо дела или при расставании. В отличие от русского языка, в иврите употребляется довольно часто.(АТ).

Ла-бриЮт (לבריאות) — «Будь здоров!» Также как в рамках русской культуры обычно говорят чихающему, но в отличие от русского языка никогда не говорят при прощании, как аналог «прощай».(АТ).

РефуА шлемА (רפואה שלמה) — «Выздоравливай!» Обычная форма пожелания при посещении больного. Говорят уходя от него. (АТ). 

Йом олЕдет самЕах (יום הולדת שמח) — «С днем рождения!» Употребляется также, как и в русском языке.  Конечно, добавляют «мазаль тов» и стандартную формулу «Ад мЕа вэ-эсрИм«(עד מאה ועשרים) — «До ста двадцати!» — пожелание долгих лет жизни. (АТ).

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Если вы находитесь на этой странице, значит, хотите знать, какой у фразы Шолом алейхем перевод на русский. Чтобы получить ответ на этот вопрос, нужно сперва выяснить, что обозначает и как говорят это приветствие, которое стало традиционным для евреев в сокращенном виде. У него есть полный вариант, который по-разному произносится на иврите и идише.

Шалом алейхем на русском на иврите и идише

Слово שָלוֹם означает мир, благополучие и здоровье. Оно используется в качестве приветствия и прощания. Слово עֲלֵיכֶם [алейхЕм] в переводе на русский означает “о вас, на вас” и используется для обращения как минимум к двум людям. Оно состоит из предлога עַל [аль] (о, об, на) и суффикса כֶם [хем], соответствующего местоимению множественного числа второго лица мужского рода אַתֶם [атЭм] (вы). В полном варианте на иврите эта фраза произносится как [шалОм алейхЕм] и в переводе с еврейского на русский означает “мир вам”.

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Ответ на это приветствие должен быть полным [шалОм у-врАха]. В переводе на русский это “мир и благословение”. В современном иврите редко можно услышать подобный диалог, потому что пожелание мира и ответ на него сократились до одного слова.

В идише эту фразу говорят немного по-другому. Иудеи, владеющие этим языком, изменяют одну гласную и ставят ударение на другой слог. Получается [шОлом алЕйхем], что в переводе с идиша означает то же “мир вам”.

Шолом Алейхем: путь еврейского писателя

2 марта 1859 года в Российской империи в Полтавской губернии в городе Переяславле на свет появился Соломон (Шо́лом) Наумович Рабинович, который стал известным еврейским писателем и драматургом по имени Шолом Алейхем, основавшим современную художественную литературу на идише, иврите и русском языке. В своих произведениях он описывал жизнь и обычаи еврейского народа, отражал его мудрость и отличное чувство юмора. Шолом Алейхем обогатил культуру идиша литературой, которую любят читатели всех возрастов и национальностей.

Последние годы Соломон жил и творил в Нью-Йорке. Он сильно страдал от туберкулеза. 13 мая 1916-го в возрасте 57 лет Шолом Алейхем ушел на тот свет.  На его надгробии нет фотографии, но есть надпись – изречение, которое он сочинил заранее для себя. Начинается оно со слов:

“Здесь погребен простой еврей.

Он был писатель из народа,

Всю жизнь писал он для людей

Простого звания и рода”.

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Шолом Алейхем породил бесценные творения, которые будут проносить через века подлинные традиции. Он останется в сердцах и памяти миллионов людей как человек, сохранивший и раскрывший богатую еврейскую культуру на исконном языке.

Песня Шалом алейхем: перевод на русский с иврита

Субботние песни [ширИм] занимают особое место в еврейской музыке. В них заключен основной смысл Шабата – праздника Субботы. В иудейских общинах [кеhилОт] на протяжении сотен лет их поют еженедельно. Они отличаются огромным разнообразием, потому что у каждой еврейской общины сформировался свой собственный стиль исполнения, передающийся из поколения в поколение [дор].

Субботние песни основаны на еврейских священных книгах, лирической молитвословной поэзии и пиютах (религиозных гимнах). Одна из традиционных – Шалом алейхем. Мелодию для нее в XX веке сочинил Исраэль Гольдфарб по одноименному пиюту, который, по результатам исследований, был создан в XVII столетии каббалистами, приверженцами религиозно-мистического, оккультного и эзотерического течения в иудаизме.

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Каждый вечер пятницы евреи завершают молиться в синагоге [бЭт кнЭсэт] и отправляются домой. Они знают, что в тот момент, когда идут из священного дома в родные покои, их сопровождают ангелы. Поэтому, чтобы поприветствовать посланцев Всевышнего, они поют песню “Шалом алейхем”. Ее исполнение – символ субботней радости.

Этот гимн основывается на повествовании из Талмуда, свода правовых и религиозно-этических положений иудаизма. Там сказано, что вечером после субботней службы в синагоге еврея провожают два ангела. Если он приходит домой и видит наведенный порядок, накрытый стол и зажженные свечи, добрый посланник Бога зарекает первым: “Пусть будет так же в следующий Шабат!”. Злой ангел вынужденно отвечает: “Аминь” [амЕн]. А если к Шабату ничего не готово, то теперь он зарекает первым: “Пусть будет так же в следующий Шабат”. Добрый отвечает: “Аминь”.

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