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    Items with the tag:

    sholem aleichem

    Cover of One for Each Night: The Greatest Chanukah Stories of All Time
    Fic­tion
    One for Each Night: The Great­est Chanukah Sto­ries of All Time
    Essay

    The Ghost at the Feast: Writ­ing in the Shad­ow of Yiddish

    Toby Lloyd
    March 25, 2024
    Essay

    Streisand and Sto­ries: Writ­ing with Music

    Rochelle B. Weinstein
    October 23, 2023
    Cover of JEWels: Teasing Out the Poetry in Jewish Humor and Storytelling
    Poet­ry
    JEW­els: Teas­ing Out the Poet­ry in Jew­ish Humor and Storytelling
    Steve Zeitlin, ed.
    Essay

    Sholom Ale­ichem’s Long-Lost Novel

    Curt Leviant
    August 23, 2021
    Interview

    The Infi­nite Opti­mist: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Yaniv Iczkovits

    Bram Press­er
    March 17, 2021
    Essay

    Part I: Sholem Ale­ichem and Me

    Talia Carn­er
    September 2, 2019
    Essay

    Part II: Take a Skele­ton Out of the Clos­et and Dance with it

    Talia Carn­er
    September 2, 2019
    Essay

    Love as Free­dom, Love as Sep­a­ra­tion, in Japan­ese and Jew­ish Tales

    Ken­ny Fries
    October 5, 2017
    Essay

    Tak­ing Inspi­ra­tion from Tevye’s Daughters

    Sharon Led­er
    August 2, 2017
    Recommended Reading

    Five Jew­ish Authors Who Influ­enced The Fix

    Sharon Led­er
    July 31, 2017
    Essay

    Fid­dler at Fifty

    by Edward ShapiroIt has been fifty years since Fid­dler on the Roof opened on Broad­way on Tues­day, Sep­tem­ber 22, 1964 at New York City’s Impe­r­i­al The­ater. To mark its…
    Edward Shapiro
    December 9, 2014
    Essay

    The Com­ings and Goings of Songs in ​“Fid­dler on the Roof”

    Ear­li­er this week Bar­bara Isen­berg wrote about rem­i­nisc­ing with Bel Kauf­man about Sholem Ale­ichem. She is the author of Tra­di­tion!, is an award win­ning jour­nal­ist…
    Bar­bara Isenberg
    September 4, 2014
    Essay

    Rem­i­nisc­ing with Bel Kauf­man about Sholem Aleichem

    Bar­bara Isen­berg, author of Tra­di­tion!, is an award win­ning jour­nal­ist who has been writ­ing and lec­tur­ing about the­ater for over three decades. She is blog­ging here…
    Bar­bara Isenberg
    September 2, 2014
    Cover of Tradition!: The Highly Improbable, Ultimately Triumphant Broadway-to-Hollywood Story of Fiddler on the Roof, the World's Most Beloved Musical
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    Tra­di­tion!: The High­ly Improb­a­ble, Ulti­mate­ly Tri­umphant Broad­way-to-Hol­ly­wood Sto­ry of Fid­dler on the Roof, the World’s Most Beloved Musical
    Bar­bara Isenberg
    Essay

    Sholem Aleichem’s Motl on a Kin­dle as Yid­dish Clas­sics Go Digital

    Look­ing for some­thing new to read with your book club? Have you thought about try­ing some­thing old? Thanks to a col­lab­o­ra­tion between Yale Uni­ver­si­ty Press, New…
    Josh Lam­bert
    May 13, 2014
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