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Sholem Aleichem is a writer best known for the stories that inspired the musical \u201cFiddler on the Roof.\u201d He wrote in Yiddish, the everyday language of Eastern European Jews, and he wrote about everyday Jewish life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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