Probably the foremost writer of Yiddish literature, Sholom Aleichem (1859-1916) was a catalyst for its revival at the turn of the century. He is also "The Jewish Mark Twain," a folk artist who faithfully recreated the shtetl, village life of Russian...

The Jewish author Sholem Aleichem (1859-1916) wrote with great humor of Jewish life in eastern Europe and America. Sholem Aleichem was born Sholem Rabinowitz on March 3, 1859, in Freislav, Poltava district, in the Ukraine. He received a traditional...

Weiner, Benjamin Forward 05-16-2003 On May 4, a crowd of nearly 200 packed into the community hall of the Brotherhood Synagogue, located on the posh, southern edge of New York's Gramercy Park. A young-looking man with closely cropped black hair, a matching goatee...

CAMBRIDGE -- Allegra Goodman cannot suppress a laugh when she recalls the day she went from being a very homesick Harvard freshman to being a professional writer. It is now 11 years since that September when she arrived at Harvard from Hawaii, all...

Frances Butwin is a Polish-born American translator and critic. With Julius Butwin, she selected and translated a collection of stories by Sholom Aleichem, which was published in 1946 as The Old Country. She has since translated several other volumes of Sholom Aleichem's works. Joseph Butwin is an American educator and critic who has published articles on English, French, and Yiddish literature. In the following essay from their biographical and critical study of Sholom Aleichem, the authors explore...

In the following excerpt, Aarons examines the defining characteristics of Aleichem' s shtetl stories.

In the following essay, Roskies examines Aleichem's use of mythology in his short fiction and places his work within the context of Yiddish literature.