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Essay The Lost Shtetl This week, Anne-Marie O’Connor, the author of The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt’s Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer blogs for The… Anne-Marie O’Connor February 25, 2014
Recommended Reading If You Read Just Ten Stories by Sholem Aleichem… Earlier this week, Jeremy Dauber wrote about touring with his recently published biography, The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem (Schocken Books/Nextbook Press). Want to win… Jeremy Dauber October 10, 2013
Essay Jeremy Dauber On Touring with Sholem Aleichem Jeremy Dauber is a professor of Yiddish literature at Columbia University, where he also serves as director of its Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies and… Jeremy Dauber October 8, 2013
Nonfiction From the Fair: The Autobiography of Sholom Aleichem Sholom Aleichem; Curt Leviant, trans.
Fiction Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor’s Son Sholem Aleichem; Aliza Shevrin, trans.; Dan Miron, intro.
Children’s Sholom’s Treasure: How Sholom Aleichem Became a Writer Erica Silverman; Mordicai Gerstein, illus.