In our country, Sholom Aleichem is highly appreciated and loved - a cheerful storyteller and a sad thinker, a sincere lyricist and an angry whistleblower . The proposed book contains statements of Soviet writers and cultural figures about the work of Sholom Aleichem and memoir records of his contemporaries. This edition is prepared for the 125th anniversary of the birth of the classic of Jewish literature . The book uses archival and amateur, poorly preserved photographs as illustrative material. Publishing them, the publishing house seeks to show readers a rare photo material from the life of the writer, of undoubted interest.