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Name	Aleichem, Sholem
First name	Sholem
Surname	Aleichem
Birth name	Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich
Date of birth	02.03.1859
Date of death	13.05.1916
Note	was Yiddish author and playwright; from 1906 lived in Switzerland and New York; Bohuslav Martinů took some scenic notes on Aleichem's book "Histoire de Tévie, e.i. French translation of Yiddish "Ṭeṿye der milkhiḳer" known in English as "Tevye the Dairyman"

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