Sholom aleichem biography of abraham

Shalom Aleichem (Shalom Rabinowitz) (1859-1916) was born in Pereyaslav, the Ukraine. As a child, he moved with his family to Voronkov, a small town nearby which 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 in 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 14, he entered a Russian high school from which he graduated in 1876.

Although he began writing in Hebrew, his first “serious work” – a dictionary of the curses used by stepmothers – was written in Yiddish.

Later on he wrote Hebrew biblical “romances” similar in style to those of Abraham Mapu, of which his father was particularly fond. In 18