The Santa Monica Playhouse was packed for the opening night of “Aleichem Sholom,” the fifth piece in a five-play cycle about the Yiddish writer Sholom Aleichem. The play is based on his writings and ...

When one thinks of Russian humorist Sholem Aleichem, usually the first thing that comes to mind is Tevye from Fiddler on the Roof, a character he created. But there's much more to Aleichem the man and ...

“Let me tell you a story,” beckons the voice of narrator Alan Rosenberg (TV’s “Harry’s Law”), reading aloud from one of Jewish author Shalom Aleichem’s many books. And that is precisely what “Sholem ...

I’ve been called many things in my day: Jocelyn, Jennifer, Jen, Joselit Weissman and on occasion (and hopefully in jest) even Gender Weissman Joselit, a name designed to highlight my stalwart embrace ...

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“He wrote standing up… Standing, walking, running.” So Bel Kaufman, granddaughter of Sholem Aleichem, describes the world’s most influential Yiddish writer. “He would look off into the distance and ...

I’m writing a book about Sholem Aleichem, and I’m looking at these clips of “Fiddler on the Roof” on YouTube. We have “Fiddler on the Roof” in Hindi, and we have “Fiddler on the Roof” in Japanese, so ...

Jeremy Dauber is the Atran Professor of Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture at Columbia University, where he also serves as director of its Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies and teaches in ...

Wonder of Wonders: A Cultural History of Fiddler on the Roof by Alisa Solomon (Metropolitan Books) The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem: The Remarkable Life and Afterlife of the Man Who Created Tevye by ...

Jeremy Dauber is the Atran Professor of Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture and Director of the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia University. He is also a friend. Whenever we ...

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