Born in Pereiaslav in 1859 and raised in the nearby shtetl of Voronkiv, this Yiddish writer emigrated to New York City after the 1905 pogroms and died there in May 1916; his funeral drew an estimated 100,000 mourners, one of the largest in the city's history. Which author, famous for the Tevye stories that inspired 'Fiddler on the Roof', is this?

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Sholem Aleichem. Sholem Aleichem (1859–1916) was a Yiddish author whose Tevye the Dairyman stories inspired the musical 'Fiddler on the Roof'. Born in Pereiaslav, he emigrated to New York City in 1906 and is buried at Old Mount Carmel cemetery in Queens.