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Learn From Their Mistakes? Not These Lusty Dreamers: The Letters of Menakhem-Mendl and Sheyne-Sheyndl and Motl, the Cantor's Son; The World According to Itzik; Selected Prose and Poetry
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Forward
01-10-2003
In the past hundred years, two Yiddish writers of monumental talent rose to
immense fame. When one died, his funeral was the largest ever held in his
city's history, attracting more than 100,000 mourners and several
generations of future fans. But when the other died, his funeral, with
construction machinery pounding in the background, attracted hundreds, not
thousands -- the tail end of his readership. The difference? One was buri...
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Sholom Aleichem's Descendant Tries Fiddling on the Web: Artist Asks if a New Medium Can Find Fresh Audiences for His Great-Grandfather's Work
Forward
; Shapiro, Gary Forward 02-23-2001 Sholom Aleichem's Descendant Tries Fiddling on the Web: Artist Asks if a New Medium Can Find Fresh Audiences for His Great-Grandfather's Work By GARY SHAPIRO FORWARD STAFF What do you do when your great-grandfather was one of the world's most beloved Yiddish
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Everybody's Fiddler; A Researcher Finds a Link - Long Denied - Between Chagall and Sholom Aleichem
Forward
; Huttner, Jan Lisa Forward 09-05-2003 The Marc Chagall retrospective currently at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art includes some of the artist's most arresting pieces, from the flying lovers in "Above the Town" to the "White Crucifixion" (Jesus is wearing a tallis!) to Moses leading his people
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New York City block named for Aleichem
Ukrainian Weekly, The
; Irene Jarosewich Ukrainian Weekly, The 11-10-1996 New York City block named for Aleichem. Two streets in Manhattan now carry the names of writers born in Ukraine. The first block is located off Sixth and Seventh streets between Second and Third avenues in the East Village, and is named after
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Beyond Bubbeleh: Reading Real Yiddish
Forward
; Quint, Alyssa Forward 12-02-2005 Alyssa Quint is a regular contributor to the Forward. These days, books about Yiddish have been hamming it up for the mainstreamers. A slew of new books have arrived to decode the cultural essence of the language of Ashkenazic Jewry for an audience of non-Jews and
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Fiddler back on the hoof
Evening Standard - London
; Sholom Aleichem's stories of Jewish village life were turned into the hit musical Fiddler on the Roof. Now his tales are being revived on the London stage. MATTHEW LEWIN reports FOR the first time in 45 years, London is being treated to a performance based exclusively on the remarkable 100-year-old
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