Yiddish popular writer Shalom Aleichem born in the Ukraine

Sholem Naumovich Rabinoch was born in the Ukraine to poor Jewish parents. He grew up to be, under the pen-name Shalom Aleichem, to become the most famous writer in Yiddish literature. He left Russia for New York City in 1905 and died there in 1916. (By John Osborne)
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Joseph Telushkin, Jewish Literacy: The Most Important Things to Know about the Jewish Religion, Its People, and Its History (New York: Harper Collins, 1991), 263.
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