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Sholem Aleichem was the literary pseudonym of Solomon Rabinovich (1859–1916), who was called the Yiddish Mark Twain. Like Twain's, Aleichem's writings often display a pungent wit and an unvarnished look at human life. As Twain was a master of spoken English, Aleichem took the everyday language of Eastern European Jews—Yiddish—and made of it great literature. Aleichem's subjects and his audience were poor, downtrodde...Log In or Sign Up to Read More