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Word: pereyaslav (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hecht calls Solomon Rabinowitch "the greatest humorist the Jews ever produced." Rabinowitch was born in Pereyaslav, the Ukraine, in 1859. In his father's inn Sol grew from boyhood to manhood-and observed the customers. At 23, he began to write-about the customers-for Hamelitz, a Jewish periodical. He took the pen name Sholom Aleichem, the Jewish equivalent of "How do you do?", and turned out copy like a mimeograph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How Do You Do? | 6/24/1946 | See Source »

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