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Sholem Aleichem, Jeremy Dauber writes in his new biography, is “the man responsible, in his day and ours, for the most compelling picture of the world of our great grandfathers, a society in dizzying, wrenching transition from the traditional life of centuries past to the modern age.” A master of Yiddish stories, chronicler of Jewish life, and creator of enduring fictional characters who continue to gain devoted fans across the globe, Sholem Aleichem helped to shape our modern notions about shtetl life and the now-vanished Jewish world of Eastern Europe. In The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem, Dauber explores the author’s life, from his birth in a small town near Kiev in to his death in New York City in Through these tumultuous decades, the author’s personal life and career serve as a lens on enormous cultural shifts taking place at the time, not only in terms of literature and language, but with respect to politics, religion, nationalism, assimilation, and self-determination, as well.
THE MAN BEHIND THE STORIESSholem Aleichem has been dubbed the “Jewish Mark Twain.” Like his American counterpart, Sholem Aleichem not only created characters inside his storiesWHO WAS SHOLEM ALEICHEM?
Sholem Aleichem: novelist, essayist, playwright and one of the great writers of the lateth and earlyth centuries. Born Sholem Naumovich Rabinovich he created rich characters that stand out because of their humanity and their universal appeal. He was read and admired by Tolstoy and Chekhov, and by hundreds of thousands of newspaper readers1 who pored over his weekly installments, eager to find out what happened next. Published serially with great frequency in the burgeoning mass medium of Yiddish newsprint, Sholem Aleichem had a close relationship with his readers, similar in many ways to popular bloggers and their readers today.
His protagonists are lovable, fallible people from a traditional world, running headlong towards the brink of modernity. In his day, Sholem Aleichem was often called “The Jewish Mark Twain.” Like Twain, he was skilled at writing dialogue in many different voices. His Motl, Menakhem Mendel, Sheyne Sheyndel, Tevye and a panoply of other characters still pop off the page today.
Sholem Aleichem wrote primarily about Eastern European Jews, and is perhaps best known for Tevye the Dairyman, upon which Broadway’s Fiddler on t
Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories, by Sholem Aleichem
A Classic
Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories
by Sholem Aleichem.
Translated and with an Introduction by Hillel Halkin. Library of Yiddish Classics/ Schocken. pp. $
Sholem Aleichem (pen-name for Sholem Rabinovich, born in Russia, , died in New York, ) remains the central figure of modern Yiddish fiction—not with regard to technique or style, which have since followed other paths, but in his profound identification through his characters and his vivid narrators with the collective spirit of Yiddish-speaking Jewry. In his own lifetime he rapidly achieved the status, with the attendant simplifications, not of writer but of beloved folk hero. His funeral in New York, attended by scores of thousands, was a rite of national mourning.
Sholem Aleichem’s relation both to his fictional materials and to his audience was essentially episodic and conversational. The two works drawn together in this new volume were both composed over a span of years by fits and starts. Tevye the Dairyman, probably Sholem Aleichem’s most famous work, began as a story published separately in Further tales of t
Sholom Aleichem: A Biography by Rachel K. Fischer
SholomRabinowitz (Sholom Aleichem, ) was the greatest Yiddish author of all time, and a Jewish cultural hero. His writing is comical, satirical, and realistic about the state of poverty and anti-semitism in Europe. Some of his stories were based on his own life, while some were based on the political and religious situation that he witnessed. The legacy of his work has continued to withstand the test of time due to its transformation into the hit Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof.
Rabinowitz was born in Pereyaslav, Poltava, Ukraine on March 2, The Ukraine was part of Russia at the time. His father worked for the local government and sold timber and grain. His mother owned a general store. He spent most of his childhood living in a shtetl called Voronko, and was raised in the ultra-orthodox Jewish culture as a Chassidic Jew. He attended Jewish schools until high school, when his father sent him to the Russian County School.
After graduating from high school, Rabinowitz worked as a tutor for a girl that was a distant cousin. They fell in love, against the wishes of her father. They were married in and had six children. I
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