Tragic magic--Sholem Aleichem, American.(Critical Essay)

From: Midstream | Date: July 1, 2002| Author: Kraines, Oscar | Copyright information

If you should ask, why me on Sholem Aleichem, I have an answer. Every Jew has a share in Sholem Aleichem; but let me tell you why it should be me. From 1933 to 1937, I attended the Herzliah Hebrew Teachers' Institute on East Broadway near the Day and Forward buildings, where one of my teachers was Abraham Epstein, a renowned authority, on Mendele Mocher Seforim, Isaac Leib Peretz, and Sholem Aleichem, three giants of Yiddish literature.

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