WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:39:47 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg Aleichem, Sholem – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Aleichem, Sholem -- Fiddler on the Roof [with Joseph Stein] (1971) https://wist.info/aleichem-sholom/1413/ https://wist.info/aleichem-sholom/1413/#respond Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/wp/?p=1413 PERCHIK: Money is the world’s curse.
TEVYE: May the Lord smite me with it! And may I never recover!


Sholem Aleichem (1859-1916) Russian-Jewish humorist [pseud. for Sholem Rabinowitz]
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Sholem Aleichem (1859-1916) Russian-Jewish humorist [pseud. for Sholem Rabinowitz]
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Sholem Aleichem (1859-1916) Russian-Jewish humorist [pseud. for Sholem Rabinowitz]
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