Editing Sholem Aleichem (section)

==Death==
[[File:Sholem Aleichem funeral.jpg|thumb|Sholem Aleichem's funeral on May 15, 1916]]
Sholem Aleichem died in New York on May 13, 1916, from tuberculosis and diabetes,<ref name="donaldson">{{cite book | first = Norman and Betty | last = Donaldson | title = How Did They Die? | year = 1980 | publisher = Greenwich House | isbn = 0-517-40302-1 }}</ref> aged 57, while working on his last novel, ''[[Motl, Peysi the Cantor's Son]]'', and was buried at [[Mount Carmel Cemetery (Queens)|Old Mount Carmel]] cemetery in [[Queens]].<ref>[http://www.mountcarmelcemetery.com/page.asp?id=aboutus Mount Carmel cemetery] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070630122843/http://www.mountcarmelcemetery.com/page.asp?id=aboutus |date=June 30, 2007 }}</ref> At the time, his funeral was one of the largest in New York City history, with an estimated 100,000 mourners.<ref>{{cite news |title=Vast Crowds Honor Sholem Aleichem; Funeral Cortege Of Yiddish Author Greeted By Throngs In Three Boroughs. Many Deliver Eulogies Services At Educational Alliance Include Reading Of Writer's Will And His Epitaph. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1916/05/16/archives/vast-crowds-honor-sholem-aleichem-funeral-cortege-of-yiddish-author.html |quote=A hundred thousand people of the East Side, with sadness in their faces, lined the sidewalks yesterday when the funeral procession of Sholem Aleichem ("peace be with you"), the famous Yiddish humorist, whose real name was Solomon Rabinowitz, passed down Second Avenue and through East Houston. Eldridge, and Canal Streets, to the Educational Alliance, where services were held before the body was carried over the Williamsburg Bridge to ... |newspaper=[[New York Times]] |date=May 16, 1916|access-date=April 20, 2008 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=2,500 Jews Mourn Sholem Aleichem; "Plain People" Honor Memory Of "Jewish Mark Twain" In Carnegie Hall. Some Of His Stories Read Audience Laughs Through Tears, Just As The Author Had Said He Hoped Friends Would Do.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1916/06/18/archives/2500-jews-mourn-sholem-aleichem-plain-people-honor-memory-of-jewish.html |quote=More than 2,500 Jews paid honor to the memory of Sholem Aleichem, the "Mark Twain, who depicted in a style almost epic" the spirit of his race, at a "mourning evening" in Carnegie Hall last night. |newspaper=[[New York Times]] |date=May 18, 1916 |access-date=April 20, 2008 }}</ref> The next day, his will was printed in the ''[[New York Times]]'' and was read into the [[Congressional Record|Congressional Record of the United States]].