Once a joke, twice a joke, but not a joke forever. - Sholem Aleichem

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Once a joke, twice a joke, but not a joke forever.

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About Sholem Aleichem

Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich (Соломон Наумович Рабинович), better known under his pen name Sholem Aleichem (Yiddish and Hebrew: שלום עליכם, also spelled שאָלעם־אלייכעם in Soviet Yiddish, [ˈʃɔləm aˈlɛjxəm]; Russian and Ukrainian: Шо́лом-Але́йхем) (March 2 [O.S. February 18] 1859 – May 13, 1916), was a Yiddish author and playwright who lived in the Russian Empire and in the United States.

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Native Name: שלום עליכם
Alternative Names: Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich • Sholem Aleychem • Sholom Aleykhem • Solem o Salom Alekem
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In America there’s a custom: you moofe. That is, you pack up from one apartment to the next. From one street to the next. From one biznes to the next. Everybody has to moofe. If you don’t moofe of your own free will, then they make it so you have to.
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