hen Shalom Aleichem's stepmother hurled lively insults at him, he decided to turn them into the raw material for his first literary work. This was the first step on the artistic path of the writer who turned tears into laughter, and won an extraordinary place in the culture of the Soviet Union in general, and in Kaplan's work in particular.
hen Shalom Aleichem's stepmother hurled lively insults at him, he decided to turn them into the raw material for his first literary work. This was the first step on the artistic path of the writer who turned tears into laughter, and won an extraordinary place in the culture of the Soviet Union in general, and in Kaplan's work in particular.