[ah-ley-khem] 
Sho⋅lom [shaw-luh m] or Sho⋅lem [shoh-lem, -luhm] or Sha⋅lom [shah-lohm] , (pen name of Solomon Rabinowitz), 1859–1916, Russian author of Yiddish novels, plays, and short stories; in the U.S. from 1906. |
| A·lei·chem (ä-lā'kěm, -KHěm) Russian-born Jewish humorist whose stories and plays, originally written in Yiddish, were the basis for the musical Fiddler on the Roof. |