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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
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
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