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==Beliefs and activism== Sholem Aleichem was an impassioned advocate of Yiddish as a national Jewish language, which he felt should be accorded the same status and respect as other modern European languages. He did not stop with what came to be called "Yiddishism", but devoted himself to the cause of [[Zionism]] as well. Many of his writings<ref>''Oyf vos badarfn Yidn a land'', (''[http://www.sholom-aleichem.org/why_jews_need2.htm Why Do the Jews Need a Land of Their Own?] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060309163134/http://www.sholom-aleichem.org/why_jews_need2.htm |date=March 9, 2006 }}''), translated by Joseph Leftwich and Mordecai S. Chertoff, Cornwall Books, 1984, {{ISBN|0-8453-4774-8}}</ref> present the Zionist case. In 1888, he became a member of [[Hovevei Zion]]. In 1907, he served as an American delegate to the Eighth Zionist Congress held in [[The Hague]]. Sholem Aleichem had a [[Triskaidekaphobia|fear of the number 13]]. His manuscripts never had a page 13; he numbered the thirteenth pages of his manuscripts as 12a.<ref>"[https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/18/nyregion/18nyc.html A Reading to Recall the Father of Tevye]", [[Clyde Haberman]], [[New York Times]], May 17, 2010</ref> Though it has been written that even his [[headstone]] carries the date of his death as "May 12a, 1916",<ref name='Hendrickson'>{{cite book | last = Hendrickson | first = Robert | title = World Literary Anecdotes | publisher = Facts on File, Inc | year = 1990 | location = New York, New York | pages = [https://archive.org/details/worldliteraryane00hend/page/7 7] | url = https://archive.org/details/worldliteraryane00hend/page/7 | isbn = 0-8160-2248-8 }}</ref> his headstone reads the dates of his birth and death in Hebrew, the 26th of Adar and the 10th of Iyar, respectively.
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