Sholem Aleichem

Sholem Aleichem

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. 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.

Birth and Death Data: Born March 5, 1859 (Pereiaslav), Died May 13, 1916 (New York City)

Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1910 - 1925

Roles Represented in DAHR: author, speaker

Notes: Pen name of Solomon Rabinowitz

= Recordings are available for online listening.
= Recordings were issued from this master. No recordings issued from other masters.

Recordings

Company	Matrix No.	Size	First Recording Date	Title	Primary Performer	Description	Role
Victor	B-16973	10-in.	1/6/1916	Schlof main kind	Jakov M. Medvedieff	Male vocal solo, with orchestra	author
Victor	B-20182	10-in.	6/28/1917	Shlof main kind	Nahen Rosenshak [i.e., Naum Coster]	Male vocal solo, with orchestra	author
Victor	B-28939	10-in.	11/13/1923	Nachis fun kinder, part 1	Rubin Goldberg	Recitation, with piano	author
Victor	B-28940	10-in.	11/13/1923	Nachis fun kinder, part 2	Rubin Goldberg	Recitation, with piano	author
Victor	B-29718	10-in.	3/19/1924	Naches fun kinder	Rubin Goldberg	Recitation, unaccompanied	author
Victor	B-29719	10-in.	3/19/1924	Naches fun kinder	Rubin Goldberg	Recitation, unaccompanied	author
Victor	B-32252	10-in.	3/25/1925	Purim zu der seda	Le'on Blanḳ	Monologue, unaccompanied	author
Victor	[Trial 1915-09-07-04]	10-in.	9/7/1915	If I were Rothschild	Sholem Aleichem	Recitation	speaker
Gramophone	14355b	10-in.	Feb. 1910	Wenn ich bin Rotschild	Seljaso	Recitation	author

Citation

Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Sholem Aleichem," accessed November 14, 2024, https://adpprod2.library.ucsb.edu/names/102283.

Sholem Aleichem. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved November 14, 2024, from https://adpprod2.library.ucsb.edu/names/102283.

"Sholem Aleichem." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 14 November 2024.