Shalom aleichem meaning
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Shalom Aleichem
Shalom Aleichem (Shalom Rabinowitz) was born in Pereyaslav, Ukraine, and moved with his family as a child to Voronkov, a neighboring small town that later served as the model for the fictitious town of Kasrilevke described in his works.
Shalom Aleichem received his early education in a traditional heder in Voronkov.
His father, a wealthy merchant, was interested in the Haskalah (Enlightenment) and modern Hebrew literature.
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A failed business affair caused the family to move again. Days of poverty and want followed, and in 1872, his mother died of cholera. In 1873, at the age of fourteen, he entered a Russian gymnasium, from which he graduated in 1876.
Though he began writing in Hebrew, his first “serious work” – a dictionary of the curses employed by stepmothers – was written in Yiddish.
Later, he wrote Hebrew biblical “romances” similar in style to those of Abraham Mapu, of whom his father was particularly fond. In 1879, he began publishing. For about three year