In August 1904, Sholem Aleichem edited הילף : א זאמעל-בוך פיר ליטעראטור אונ קונסט "Hilf: a Zaml-Bukh fir Literatur un Kunst" ("Help: An Anthology for Literature and Art"; Warsaw, 1904) and himself translated three stories submitted by Tolstoy ("Esarhaddon, King of Assyria"; "Work, Death and Sickness"; "The Three Questions") as well as contributions by other prominent Russian writers, including Chekhov, in aid of the victims of the Kishinev pogrom.