Sholem Aleichem

Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich, better known under his pen name Sholem Aleichem (1859–1916). Yiddish and Hebrew: שלום־עליכם‬, also spelled שאלעם אלייכעם‬ in Yiddish Russian and Ukrainian: Шолом-Алейхем was a leading Yiddish author and playwright. The musical Fiddler on the Roof, based on his stories about Tevye the Dairyman, was the first commercially successful English-language stage production about Jewish life in Eastern Europe. The Hebrew phrase "shalom aleichem" literally means "peace be upon you", and is a greeting in traditional Hebrew and Yiddish. (wikipedia)