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Sholem is a given name and a surname. Notable people called Sholem include: Given name: *Sholem Yakov Abramovich (1836–1917), Jewish author, founder of modern Yiddish and Hebrew literature *Sholem Aleichem (1859–1916), Yiddish author and playwright in the Russian Empire and United States *Sholem Asch (1880–1957), Polish-Jewish novelist, dramatist, and essayist who settled in the United States * Sholem Ber Hecht (born 1946), American Chabad rabbi *Sholem Schwarzbard (1886–1938), Jewish Russian-born French Yiddish poet *Sholem Shtern (1907–1990), Canadian Yiddish poet, novelist, and critic Surname: * Gerschom Sholem (1897–1982), German-born Israeli philosopher and historian *Lee Sholem (1913–2000), American television and film director See also * Scholem * Shalem (other) *Shalom ''Shalom'' ( he, שָׁלוֹם ''šālōm''; also spelled as ''sholom'', ''sholem'', ''sholoim'', ''shulem'') is a Hebrew word meaning ''peace'', ''harmony'', ''wholeness'', ''comp ...
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Sholem Yakov Abramovich
Mendele Mocher Sforim ( yi, , he, מנדלי מוכר ספרים, also known as Moykher, Sfarim; lit. "Mendele the book peddler"; January 2, 1836, Kapyl – December 8, 1917 .S. Odessa), born Sholem Yankev Abramovich ( yi, , russian: Соломон Моисеевич Абрамович, translit=Solomon Moiseyevich Abramovich) or S. J. Abramowitch, was a Jewish author and one of the founders of modern Yiddish and Hebrew literature. Youth Mendele was born to a poor Lithuanian Jewish family in Kapyl in Minsk Governorate. His father, Chaim Moyshe Broyde, died shortly after Mendele's bar mitzvah. He studied in yeshiva in Slutsk and Vilna until he was 17; during this time he was a day-boarder under the system of '' Teg-essen'', barely scraping by, and often hungry. Mendele traveled extensively around Belarus, Ukraine and Lithuania at the mercy of an abusive beggar named Avreml Khromoy (Russian for "Avreml the Lame"); Avreml would later become the source for the title character o ...
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Sholem Aleichem
) , birth_date = , birth_place = Pereiaslav, Russian Empire , death_date = , death_place = New York City, U.S. , occupation = Writer , nationality = , period = , genre = Novels, short stories, plays , subject = , movement = Yiddish revival , signature = File:Sholem Aleichem Signature.svg , website = Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich (Соломон Наумович Рабинович), better known under his pen name Sholem Aleichem (Yiddish and he, שלום עליכם, also spelled in Soviet Yiddish, ; Russian and uk, Шо́лом-Але́йхем) (May 13, 1916), was a Yiddish author and playwright who lived in the Russian Empire and in the United States. The 1964 musical ''Fiddler on the Roof'', based on Aleichem's stories about Tevye the Dairyman, was the first commercially successful English-language stage production about Jewish life in Eastern Europe. The Hebrew phras ...
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Sholem Asch
Sholem Asch ( yi, שלום אַש, pl, Szalom Asz; 1 November 1880 – 10 July 1957), also written Shalom Ash, was a Polish-Jewish novelist, dramatist, and essayist in the Yiddish language who settled in the United States. Life and work Asch was born Szalom Asz in Kutno, Congress Poland to Moszek Asz (1825, Gąbin – 1905, Kutno), a cattle-dealer and innkeeper, and Frajda Malka, née Widawska (born 1850, Łęczyca). Frajda was Moszek's second wife; his first wife Rude Shmit died in 1873, leaving him with either six or seven children (the exact number is unknown). Sholem was the fourth of the ten children that Moszek and Frajda Malka had together. Moszek would spend all week on the road and return home every Friday in time for the Sabbath. He was known to be a very charitable man who would dispense money to the poor. Upbringing Born into a Hasidic family, Sholem Asch received a traditional Jewish education. Considered the designated scholar of his siblings, his parents dream ...
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Sholem Ber Hecht
Sholem Ber Hecht (born 1946) is an American Chabad rabbi. Hecht is the CEO of the National Committee for the Furtherance of Jewish Education (NCFJE). Family Hecht was born in 1946, the eldest son of Jacob J. Hecht, a Chabad rabbi who was one of the closest and most trusted officials of the Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson. His brother is Rabbi Shea Hecht. Hecht grew up in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. Hecht is married to Channah (née Gutnick), originally from Melbourne, Australia. They have 14 children. Career Since the 1970s, Hecht has been the rabbi of the Sephardic Jewish Congregation & Center of Forest Hills, Queens. Hecht also serves as the senior Chabad ''shaliach'' in the borough of Queens and is a teacher of science and religion at Beth Rivkah girls seminary in Brooklyn. He was previously the editor in English publications at Sichos, the clearinghouse for all of the English-language titles of the Lubavitch movement, and he served as the personal interpreter at ...
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Sholem Schwarzbard
Samuel "Sholem" Schwarzbard (russian: Самуил Исаакович Шварцбурд, ''Samuil Isaakovich Shvartsburd'', yi, שלום שװאַרצבאָרד, french: Samuel 'Sholem' Schwarzbard; 18 August 1886 – 3 March 1938) was a Jewish Russian-born French Yiddish poet. He served in the French and Soviet military, was a communist and anarchist, and is known for organising Jewish community defense against pogroms in pre-First World War era and Russian Civil War era Ukraine, and for the assassination of the Ukrainian nationalist leader Symon Petliura in 1926. He wrote poetry in Yiddish under the pen name of ''Baal-Khaloymes'' ( en, The Dreamer). Early life Schwarzbard was born in 1886 in Izmail, Bessarabia Governorate, Russian Empire to the Jewish family of Itskhok Shvartsbard and Khaye Vaysberger. His real given name was Sholem. After the proclamation of an order by the Russian Imperial government for all Jews to move out from the region within of the border, his family ...
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Sholem Shtern
Sholem Shtern ( yi, שלום שטערן; c.1907 – August 1990) was a Canadian Yiddish poet, novelist, and critic, best known for his novels in verse depicting the life of Jewish immigrants in Canada. Shtern was born in 1906 or 1907 in Tishevitz, Poland, and immigrated to Canada in 1927. He was a member of a prominent Yiddish literary family in Montreal, and became associated with the radical Radical may refer to: Politics and ideology Politics *Radical politics, the political intent of fundamental societal change *Radicalism (historical), the Radical Movement that began in late 18th century Britain and spread to continental Europe and ... movement. His collections of poetry include ''Nuntkejt'' (Toronto, 1929) and ''In der Fri'' (Montreal, 1945), and his novels include such works as ''In Canada'' (Montreal, 1960–63), a two-volume novel in Yiddish verse. References 1900s births 1990 deaths Jewish poets Jewish novelists Jewish Canadian writers Writers from Montreal ...
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Gerschom Sholem
Gershom Scholem () (5 December 1897 – 21 February 1982), was a German-born Israeli philosopher and historian. Widely regarded as the founder of modern academic study of the Kaballah, Scholem was appointed the first professor of Jewish Mysticism at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Scholem is acknowledged by the sages as the single most significant figure in the recovery, collection, annotation, and registration into rigorous Jewish scholarship of the canonical bibliography of mysticism and scriptural commentary that runs through its primordial phase in the ''Sefer Yetzirah,'' its inauguration in the ''Bahir,'' its exegesis in the ''Pardes'' and the ''Zohar'' to its cosmogonic, apocalyptic climax in Isaac Luria's ''Ein Sof'' that is known collectively as Kabballah. After generations of demoralization and assimilation in the European enlightenment, the disappointment of messianic hopes, the famine of 1916 in Palestine, and the catastrophe of the Final Solution in Europe Scholem ...
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Lee Sholem
Lee Tabor Sholem (May 25, 1913 in Paris, Illinois, – August 19, 2000 in Los Angeles, California) was an American television and film director. Nicknamed ""Roll 'Em" Sholem", he is identified more than anyone else in the film industry, industry with speed and efficiency. He directed more than 1300 productions, including both feature films and TV episodes, without ever going over schedule. His achievements over a 40-year career have, as yet, been unsurpassed in Cinema of the United States, Hollywood history. Sholem's first film was ''Tarzan's Magic Fountain'' in 1949 and his last film was ''Doomsday Machine'' in 1972. Filmography *''Catalina Caper'' *''Doomsday Machine (1972 film), Doomsday Machine'' *''Emergency Hospital (film), Emergency Hospital'' *''Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki'' *''Pharaoh's Curse (film), Pharaoh's Curse'' *''The Redhead from Wyoming'' *''Sierra Stranger'' *''The Stand at Apache River'' *''Superman and the Mole Men'' *''Tarzan and the Slave Girl'' *''Tarz ...
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Scholem
Scholem, derived from the Hebrew word shalom, meaning "peace", is a surname, and may refer to: *Gershom Scholem (1897–1982), also known as Gerhard Scholem, a German-born Israeli Jewish philosopher and historian, the brother of Werner Scholem. * Werner Scholem (1895–1940), a German Jewish Communist politician, the brother of Gershom Scholem. Scholem may also be a given name and may refer to: * Scholem Aleichem, also spelled Sholem Aleichem (1859–1916), the pen name of Sholem Naumovich Rabinovich, a popular humorist and Jewish author of Yiddish literature, including novels, short stories, and plays. * Scholem Asch, also spelled Sholem Asch Sholem Asch ( yi, שלום אַש, pl, Szalom Asz; 1 November 1880 – 10 July 1957), also written Shalom Ash, was a Polish-Jewish novelist, dramatist, and essayist in the Yiddish language who settled in the United States. Life and work Asch ..., a Polish-born American Jewish novelist, dramatist and essayist in the Yiddish language. ...
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Shalem (other)
Shalem may refer to: * Shalim, the Canaanite god of dusk * Salem, a town in the Bible * Avinoam Shalem Avinoam Shalem (born 1959) is the Riggio Professor of the History of the Arts of Islam at Columbia University. He served as director of the American Academy in Rome from 2020 to 2021. Biography Shalem was born in Haifa, Israel in 1959. He receiv ...
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Shalom
''Shalom'' ( he, שָׁלוֹם ''šālōm''; also spelled as ''sholom'', ''sholem'', ''sholoim'', ''shulem'') is a Hebrew word meaning ''peace'', ''harmony'', ''wholeness'', ''completeness'', ''prosperity'', ''welfare'' and ''tranquility'' and can be used idiomatically to mean both ''hello'' and ''goodbye''. As it does in English, it can refer to either peace between two entities (especially between a person and God or between two countries), or to the well-being, welfare or safety of an individual or a group of individuals. The word shalom is also found in many other expressions and names. Its equivalent cognate in Arabic is ''salaam'', '' sliem'' in Maltese, Shlama in Syriac-Assyrian and ''sälam'' in Ethiopian Semitic languages from the Proto-Semitic root Š-L-M. Etymology In Hebrew, words are built on "roots", generally of three consonants. When the root consonants appear with various vowels and additional letters, a variety of words, often with some relation in mean ...
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Sholim
Milos Rajković ( sr-cyr, Милош Рајковић; born 1985 in Belgrade) is a Serbian animator known by the pseudonym Sholim. Sholim is known for his surreal looped GIFs and animations, most of his videos are made with Photoshop and After Effects. See also * GIF art GIF art is a form of digital art that first emerged in 1987. The technology for the animated GIF has become increasingly advanced through the years. After 2010, a new generation of artists focused on experimenting with its potential for presenti ... References External links Sholim's website* Living people 1985 births Date of birth missing (living people) Serbian animators Serbian YouTubers Surreal comedy YouTube channels launched in 2013 YouTube animators Artists from Belgrade {{YouTuber-bio-stub ...
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