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Fiddler On The Roof
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Sholem Aleichem: The Yiddish Master Who Made the Shtetl Immortal
They called him the 'Jewish Mark Twain' — but Mark Twain, upon meeting him, reportedly said 'I am the American Sholem Aleichem.' His Tevye the Dairyman became Fiddler on the Roof, and his stories preserved a vanished world in laughter and tears.
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Jews on Broadway: How Jewish Composers Invented the American Musical
Rodgers and Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim, Leonard Bernstein, Irving Berlin, the Gershwins, Kander and Ebb — the American musical theater was overwhelmingly created by Jews. They wrote about Oklahoma and Siam and Oz, and the music they made was America's soul.
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