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{{short description|Russian Jewish author and playwright (1859–1916)}}
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{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] -->
| name             = Sholem Aleichem
| image            = Sholem Aleichem 1907.jpg
| caption          = Sholem Aleichem in 1907
| language         = [[Yiddish]]
| birth_name       = Solomon Rabinovich
| pseudonym        = Sholem Aleichem ({{langx|yi|שלום עליכם}})
| birth_date       = {{OldStyleDate|March 2|1859|February 18}}
| birth_place      = [[Pereiaslav]], [[Poltava Governorate]], [[Russian Empire]]
| death_date       = {{death date and age|1916|5|13|1859|2|18}}
| death_place      = [[New York City]], U.S.
| occupation       = Writer
| nationality      = 
| period           = 
| genre            = Novels, short stories, plays
| subject          = 
| movement         = [[Yiddish literature|Yiddish]] revival
| signature        = File:Sholem Aleichem Signature.svg
| website          = 
}}

'''Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich''' ({{langx|ru|Соломон Наумович Рабинович}}; {{OldStyleDate|March 2|1859|February 18}}{{spnd}}May 13, 1916), better known under his [[pen name]] '''Sholem Aleichem''' ([[Yiddish language|Yiddish]] and {{langx|he|שלום עליכם}}, also spelled {{Lang|yi|שאָלעם־אלייכעם}} in [[Yiddish orthography#Reform and standardization|Soviet Yiddish]], {{IPA|yi|ˈʃɔləm aˈlɛjxəm|}}; [[Russian language|Russian]] and {{langx|uk|Шо́лом-Але́йхем}}), was a [[Yiddish]] author and playwright who lived in the Russian Empire and in the United States.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://dbs.bh.org.il/he/%D7%A9%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%9D-%D7%A2%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%9B%D7%9D/%D7%90%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%95%D7%AA|title=Heroes – Trailblazers of the Jewish People|website=Beit Hatfutsot|access-date=November 14, 2019|archive-date=May 10, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200510183115/https://dbs.bh.org.il/he/%D7%A9%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%9D-%D7%A2%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%9B%D7%9D/%D7%90%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%95%D7%AA|url-status=dead}}</ref> The 1964 musical ''[[Fiddler on the Roof]]'', based on Aleichem's stories about [[Tevye|Tevye the Dairyman]], was the first commercially successful English-language stage production about Jewish life in [[Eastern Europe]].

The [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] phrase שלום עליכם ([[shalom aleichem]]) literally means "[May] peace [be] upon you!", and is a greeting in traditional Hebrew and Yiddish.<ref>The Arabic [[cognate]] is {{script/Arabic|السَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُمْ}} {{IPA|ar|ʔæs.sæˈlæːmu ʕæˈlæjkʊm|}} ([[As-salamu alaykum]]).</ref>