"The rich swell of pride, the poor, from hunger." --Sholom Alecheim, Russian and Ukrainian (March 2, 1859 – May 13, 1916). The pen name of Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich, a leading Yiddish author and playwright. The musical "Fiddler on the Roof", based on his stories about Tevye the Milkman, was the first commercially successful English-language stage production about Jewish life in Eastern Europe.
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sholom_alecheim
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