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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 ...

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Jewish critics today acclaimed “Schwer zu Sein a Yid,” (It is Hard to be a Jew), a play by the late Shalom Aleichem, the “Mark Twain of Yiddish literature, “which had its premiere last night in German ...

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 ...