Sholem Aleichem: Understanding the Life of Shtetl Jews
This clip from "Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness" covers the advantages and disadvantages of growing up in a shtetl as seen through Sholem Aleichem's story "The Town of the Little People."
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Sholem Aleichem: A World in Transition: Emancipation, Acculturation, and Antisemitism - part 1
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Sholem Aleichem: Photo: At Desk
Sholem Aleichem at his writing desk in Saint Petersburg, the capital of imperial Russia. 1904. Sholem Aleichem was a prolific writer who wrote in Yiddish, the language of millions of eastern European Jews.