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Sholem Aleichem
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beginner
Jewish Literature: A Survey
Jewish literature spans three thousand years — from the Psalms and Song of Songs through medieval Hebrew poetry, Yiddish masters like Sholem Aleichem, and modern voices from Isaac Bashevis Singer to Amos Oz.
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intermediate
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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intermediate
Yiddish Literature: A Complete Survey of the Mame-Loshn's Greatest Works
Yiddish literature produced some of the world's most powerful fiction, poetry, and drama over five centuries, from religious texts to Nobel Prize-winning novels.
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