JTA — Move over, Tevye the dairyman. Make room for Moshkele the thief, the rough-and-tumble rogue hero from the wrong side of the shtetl in a newly rediscovered work of fiction by Sholem Aleichem. The ...

(JTA) — Move over, Tevye the dairyman. Make room for Moshkele the thief, the rough and tumble rogue hero from the wrong side of the shtetl in a newly rediscovered work of fiction by Sholom Aleichem.

A century has passed since the death of Shalom Aleichem (Shalom Rabinowitz 1859-1916), the brilliant writer who brought the shtetl to life with warmth, wry love, realism and an insider's knowledge of ...

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‘What could be easier than to buy up the Land of Israel from the Turks?” writes Sholem Aleichem in a Yiddish-language short story entitled “Homesickness.” The story describes how the inhabitants of an ...

Forgotten novel by Sholom Aleichem published in English for first time Sholom Aleichem, the pen name of Shalom Rabinowitz (1859-1916), was a masterful storyteller whose keen eye, wit and humor earned ...

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