About the book: 2017 / Sholom Aleichem is the pseudonym of one of the founders of Jewish literature in Yiddish, Sholom Nokhumovich Rabinovich. An outstanding writer and humorist, Sholom Aleichem created in his work unforgettable images of ordinary people, whose hopeless lives are brightened up with laughter, although often it is “laughter through tears.”».