sholem aleichem

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…

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, author of Tra­di­tion!, is an award win­ning jour­nal­ist who has been writ­ing and lec­tur­ing about the­ater for over three decades. She is blog­ging here…

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…

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…

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 is a pro­fes­sor of Yid­dish lit­er­a­ture at Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty, where he also serves as direc­tor of its Insti­tute for Israel and Jew­ish Stud­ies and…