The Ashkenazi Revolution

322Shalom Aleichem Sholem Aleichem (March 2, 1859— May 13, 1916) was the pen name of Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich, aleading Yiddish author and playwright. The musical Fiddler on the Roof, basedon his stories about Tevye the Milkman, was the first commercially successfulEnglish-language stage production about Jewish life in Eastern Europe.Shaul Tchernichovsky Shaul Tchernichovsky (August 20,1875 – October 14, 1943) was a Russian-born Hebrew poet. He is consideredone of the great Hebrew poets, identified with nature poetry, and was greatlyinfluenced by the culture of ancient Greece.Shin ShalomShalom, Shin (pseudonymof Shalom Joseph Shapira; 1904–1990), Hebrew poet and author. Born inParczew, Poland, Shalom was a descendant of distinguished Hasidic rabbis.He received a religious and secular education at his grandfather's "court,"which moved to Vienna in the wake of World War I. Here he began to writepoetry, at first in German and later solely in Hebrew.(http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0018_0_18157.html)Shitrit Bechor-Shalom Sheetrit (1895 –January 28,1967) was an Israeli politician, minister and the only signatory ofthe Israeli declaration of independence to have been born in the country. Heserved as Minister of Police from independence until his death in 1967, makinghim the longest-serving cabinet member in the same portfolio to date.Shlonsky Avraham Shlonsky (March 6, 1900– May 18, 1973) was a significant and dynamic Israeli poet and editor bornin Russian Empire.ShomerSmall loafStory of Elijah in Kings 1, chapter 17.See Hashomer Hatzair.This term (pg. 155) may refer to theSons of MosesIn 1889 Ahad ha’Am published hisfirst programmatic article, "This Is Not the Way". In this essay he attempted todemonstrate that, without a revival of the national consciousness, which haddwindled over the long years of exile, the program of the Lovers of Zioncould not succeed. In the same year he founded in Odessa the Sons ofMoses, an organization dedicated to providing the future leadership for aJewish national revival.