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In May 1916, an estimated 100,000 people attended the funeral of Sholem Aleichem, a Yiddish writer who made ordinary Jewish life his subject. His character Tevye would later inspire Fiddler on the Roof. #EternalLight 1/10

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Born Sholem Rabinovich in Pereyaslav, in what is now Ukraine, in 1859, he grew up in nearby Voronkov. The Jewish town he knew there became the setting for much of his fiction. 2/10

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He first wrote in Russian and Hebrew before turning to Yiddish. Many educated people dismissed Yiddish as mere “jargon.” His pen name, Sholem Aleichem, came from the familiar greeting meaning “peace be upon you.” 3/10

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In 1899, the Yiddish weekly Der yud began publishing his work. It helped him earn a living from writing, and he produced short pieces for the paper on a weekly basis. 4/10

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