MARCH 2/ADAR 2

1859:

Birthday of Shalom Aleichem (Solomon Rabinovitz), writer/playwright known as the "Yiddish Mark Twain," whose stories were made into the musical hit Fiddler on the Roof. The humor and pathos with which he portrayed the simple lives of the shtetl touched a chord in the Jewish immigrant community that was unmatched by any other Yiddish writer. 200,000 people followed his funeral cortege from Manhattan to his burial site in Queens.

Public Domain

“No matter how bad things get, you got to go on living, even if it kills you.”