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Group provides community for non-religious Jews
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By Sharon Chisvin
THE prolific Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem passed away almost 100 years ago, but his name and his particular devotion to humanistic values and Yiddish culture are being kept alive by a group of Winnipeggers.
Winnipeg's Sholem Aleichem group was established about 13 years ago to provide a sense of community to those who identify themselves as culturally Jewish, but not religiously Jewish. For the group's members, Judaism is not defined by religious observance o...
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Group provides community for non-religious Jews
Winnipeg Free Press
; By Sharon Chisvin THE prolific Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem passed away almost 100 years ago, but his name and his particular devotion to humanistic values and Yiddish culture are being kept alive by a group of Winnipeggers. Winnipeg's Sholem Aleichem group was established about 13 years ago to
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MASHA LEON
Forward
; Forward 02-07-1997 MASHA LEON. "Why am I here? Neither Sholem Aleichem nor Yiddish meets with my official position," said Baron Hans-Heinrich von Stackelberg, acting consul general of the Federal Republic of Germany in New York, as he addressed the stellar audience at the Friends of Sholom Aleichem
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Sholem Aleichem comes alive
Washington Jewish Week
; Annual ceremony to mark anniversary of his death Sholem Aleichem was much more than just a giant of Yiddish literature. "He was the spokesperson for Jews of his time, and his love for the mamaloshen [the mother tongue] is evident in the heroes whom he created, like Tevye [who later was made into
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Preserved in Translation
The Jerusalem Report
; Classic Yiddish Stories of S.Y. Abramovitsh, Sholem Aleichem, and I.L. Peretz Edited by Ken Frieden Translated by Ken Frieden, Ted Gorelick and Michael Wex - Syracuse University Press 286 pp.; $19.95 You don't have to know the language once spoken by millions of European Jews to appreciate a new
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Static View of the Shtetl: Jewish Museum Homogenizes the Past
Forward
; David Roskies Forward 05-26-1995 Static View of the Shtetl: Jewish Museum Homogenizes the Past. Making my way through New York's Jewish Museum to the current exhibit on "Tricksters, Tailors and Fools: Yiddish Tales Through Artists' Eyes," I passed through two rooms full of black-and-white
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Sholem Aleichem comes to Sderot
Jerusalem Post
; Headline: Sholem Aleichem comes to Sderot Byline: AMOTZ ASA-EL Edition; Up Front Section: Opinion Page: 06 Friday, November 24, 2006 -- 'Only he who grew up his entire childhood in a small town, and then went out for the first time to the air of God's world, only he can understand and feel the
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Leaving the Shtetl Behind
The Jerusalem Report
; 'The Letters of Menakhem-Mendl and Sheyne-Shendl,' and 'Motl, the Cantor's Son' by Shalom Aleichem (Translated by Hillel Halkin) - Yale University Press - 318 pp.; $24.99 Leaving the Shtetl Behind New translations of two of Sholem Aleichem's greatest works remind us that the satirist wasn't dealing
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Forced Fables;Nehemiah Persoff's Overstated `Aleichem'
The Washington Post
; Sholem Aleichem's charming, conversational tales of an all-but-lost way of small-town Jewish life are eminently worthy of telling and retelling. Veteran character actor Nehemiah Persoff has taken it upon himself to convey them to us, but in his one-man performance at the Washington Jewish Theater,
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Tragic magic--Sholem Aleichem, American.(Critical Essay)
Midstream
; 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
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Tackling a literary tradition
Jerusalem Post
; JEREMY DAUBER Jerusalem Post 09-29-2004 Headline: Tackling a literary tradition Byline: JEREMY DAUBER Edition; Literary Supplement Section: Books Page: 08 Wednesday, September 29, 2004 -- Classic Yiddish Stories of S.Y. Abramovitsh, Sholem Aleichem, and I.L.Peretz. Edited by Ken Frieden. Translated
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