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Essay Love as Freedom, Love as Separation, in Japanese and Jewish Tales Kenny Fries October 5, 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
Nonfiction 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
Essay The Lost Shtetl This week, Anne-Marie O’Connor, the author of The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt’s Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer blogs for The… Anne-Marie O’Connor February 25, 2014
Recommended Reading If You Read Just Ten Stories by Sholem Aleichem… Earlier this week, Jeremy Dauber wrote about touring with his recently published biography, The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem (Schocken Books/Nextbook Press). Want to win… Jeremy Dauber October 10, 2013
Essay Jeremy Dauber On Touring with Sholem Aleichem Jeremy Dauber is a professor of Yiddish literature at Columbia University, where he also serves as director of its Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies and… Jeremy Dauber October 8, 2013
Nonfiction From the Fair: The Autobiography of Sholom Aleichem Sholom Aleichem; Curt Leviant, trans.
Fiction Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor’s Son Sholem Aleichem; Aliza Shevrin, trans.; Dan Miron, intro.
