SOURCE: "The Divine Humor of Sholom Aleichem," in Judaism, Vol. 35, No. 4, Fall, 1986, pp. 391-401.
In the following essay, Goldsmith contends that Aleichem's "humor is a unique phenomenon in the history of Jewish culture and a surprising mutation in the evolution of the Jewish spirit."
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