Bidspirit auction | Sholem Aleichem. Yiddish, Stories, 2nd

Sholem Aleichem. Yiddish, Stories, 2nd part, lifetime ed., 1917, NY, Art Nouveau design. - Sholem Aleichem Yiddish, Stories, 2nd part, lifetime ed., 1917, NY, Art Nouveau design. 245 pp., lifetime edition, hard cover, 20 x 13 cm. Condition: cover worn, rubbed, stained; spine damaged; binding started loose; several pages detached; foxing and soiling stains throughout the book. Weight: 340 gr. Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich (Russian: Соломон Наумович Рабинович; March 2 [O.S. February 18] 1859 – May 13, 1916), better known under his pen name Sholem Aleichem (Yiddish and Hebrew: שלום עליכם, also spelled שאָלעם־אלייכעם in Soviet Yiddish, [ˈʃɔləm aˈlɛjxəm]; Russian and Ukrainian: Шо́лом-Але́йхем), was a Yiddish author and playwright who lived in the Russian Empire and in the United States.[1] 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 phrase שלום עליכם (shalom aleichem) literally means ”[May] peace [be] upon you!”, and is a greeting in traditional Hebrew and Yiddish.[2]