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He puts on his jacket, feels for the wallet and shield in the breast pocket, pats the sholem he wears in a holster under his arm, a chopped Smith & Wesson Model 39.
Excerpt: The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon 2007
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We have come here this evening to make sure that the insidious poison that is seeping in, into our home towns, in into our own homes †so has v’sholem would not do any damage, we have to come to immunize ourselves and our children against a plague.
What do the GOP and Hareidim have in common? | Jewschool 2006
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Reportedly, Jewish residents of Hawaii have been known to welcome visitors with "Alohaleichem" [aloha combined with the greeting sholem aleichem ` peace be with you '].
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With inhospitable surroundings, economic uncertainty, and new social challenges, it was no wonder, observed Froyen Velt, a Yiddish women’s magazine of the prewar era, that the “foundation of happy family life, of sholem bayis, has been undermined.”
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(as it is now called) is unequivocal with respect to the spelling of the greeting: sholem-aleykhem.
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(and not sholem-aleichem, as he miscopies from this dictionary).
madmouth commented on the word sholem
Michael Chabon's coinage
April 22, 2009
JackCohen commented on the word sholem
Not strictly speaking Michael Chabon's coinage, sholem is a Yiddish variant spelling of the word shalom, most commonly translated into English as peace (though any rabbi will tell you it has a deeper meaning). Chabon, meanwhile, is probably the first to use it as a slang word for a gun (in his novel, The Yiddish Policeman's Union).
December 28, 2010
shanen commented on the word sholem
According to a "Rocky Mountain Jew" webpage, he deliberately intended the punning between the source Yiddish word "shalom" which (roughly) means "peace" and the English use of "piece" as slang for a gun. Not sure if that justifies adding a definition, but if so, then I can't find any way to do that...
January 7, 2015