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Sholem Aleichem, the most beloved classical Yiddish writer, was born Sholem Rabinovitz in 1859 in Pereyaslav, Ukraine. His father — a merchant — was interested in the Russian Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment), and the young Sholem was exposed to modern modes of thinking in addition to traditional Judaism. Sholem attended the heder (Jewish school) in Voronkov, the town his family moved to when he was young, and in his teenage years he graduated with distinction from a Russian gymnasium.

Like his contemporaries Mendele Mokher-Sefarim and I.L. Peretz, Sholem Aleichem originally wrote in Hebrew, and he contributed to a number of Hebrew weeklies. Literature was the purview of maskilim (proponents of the Jewish Enlightenment), and for the maskilim, Hebrew was the appropriate language of Jewish high culture. It was the traditional language of Jewish scholarship, and it was considered more sophisticated than Yiddish — the language of the people. Indeed, when the 24-year old Sholem Rabinovitch published his first Yiddish story, “Tsvey Shteyner” (“Two Stones”), he used the pseudonym Shol

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The Life, Times, and Legacy of Sholem Aleichem

For His 100th Yortsayt, May 13th

by Bennett Muraskin

SHOLEM ALEICHEM (1859-1915) is best remembered as the author of the stories about Tevye the dairyman, which were adapted in our time into the hugely popular Broadway play and Hollywood movie, Fiddler on the Roof. He is most often been depicted as “writer of the people,” a folk-writer, whose work captured the vanishing world of traditional Jewish life in the Russian shtetl with pathos and humor. For Americans who know little about him, he is often described as the “Jewish Mark Twain.” But there is far more to his career and legacy than conveyed in those tag-lines.

Sholem Aleichem was born Sholem Rabinowitz in 1859 in the Ukraine, within tsarist Russia. His father was well-to-do, but the lost his money and became an innkeeper. Sholem, who lost his mother as a boy, knew both wealth and poverty, and was subjected to the whims of an unpleasant stepmother, whom he entertained by alphabetizing her repertoire of curses. He was also an incurable mimic.

Although religious

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From the Fair: The Autobiography of Sholom Aleichem

March 14, 2024
Grozave aceste memorii romanțate! Din nefericire ele nu acoperă decât tinerețea, pentru că autorul a murit chiar în anul apariției cărții, 1916. Pitoresc, ironic și melancolic, așa se conturează tabloul comunităților evreiești de la periferia Imperiului Rus, în a doua jumătate a secolului al XIX-lea și începutul secolului XX. Concentrați în “certa” (Ucraina și Bielorusia, în special), în târguri mici și mijlocii, ca urmare a politicii de stat, condiționați de legislație pe scara devenirii sociale, aceștia își păstrează apetența pentru negoțul felurit, deopotrivă cu încăpățânarea menținerii identității etnice și religioase. Este apogeul școlii confesionale (heder) și al vestimentației specifice, al mersului la sinagogă și al sărbătorilor tradiționale. Este vremea perciunilor, în care evreii se disting de la o poștă printre creștini, timpul în care copii evrei ajunși în școlile de stat sunt tăvăliți de colegi pentru a li se unge buzele cu slănină, înainte de a deveni prieteni la cataramă. Este timpul în care ștrengar

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