SOURCE: "Extra-Legal Disabilities, Raids, Pogroms and Other Forms of Hostility," in Sholom Aleichem: The Writer as Social Historian, Peter Lang, 1989, pp. 65-84.
In the following excerpt, Halberstam-Rubin asserts that Aleichem's short stories demonstrate how ignorance, prejudice, and violent physical attacks affected the day-today lives of the Jewish people in his time.
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