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Items with the tag:

sholem aleichem

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

Talia Carn­er
September 2, 2019
Essay

Part I: Sholem Ale­ichem and Me

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
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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
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
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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
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The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem
Jere­my Dauber
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