(JTA) — Move over, Tevye the dairyman. Make room for Moshkele the thief, the rough and tumble rogue hero from the wrong side of the shtetl in a newly rediscovered work of fiction by Sholom Aleichem.

We know the usual occupations in Sholom Aleichem’s fiction: dairyman, butcher, tailor. But did you hear the one about pickpockets (or “nimble fingers”), robbers (“snatchers”) and horse thieves? If not ...

Bunya/ Bathseba/ Angel Rochele/ Defending Angel/ Woman at List Off-Broadway The World of Sholom Aleichem 1976 Friend/ 6th Angel/ Hannah Off-Broadway The World of Sholom Aleichem 1976 Melamed/ ...

1st Man at the List Broadway The World of Sholom Aleichem 1982 2nd Angel Broadway The World of Sholom Aleichem 1982 2nd Man at the List Broadway The World of Sholom Aleichem 1982 3rd Angel Broadway ...

The Schenectady JCC Jewish Film Festival's second film will be "Sholom Aleichem: Laughing into the Darkness" at 6 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 3, at 2565 Balltown Road in Niskayuna. The 2011 documentary in ...

Sholom Aleichem was, among Jews, probably the best-known Jew on the planet, according to Aaron Lansky, founder of the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst. When he died in 1916, more than 200,000 people ...

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, Drury Lane Oakbrook, and SHOLOM ALEICHEM–NOW YOU’RE TALKING!, Chicago Jewish Theatre, at Red Hen Productions. In Ray Frewen’s warmly shaped revival of the classic musical, Sholom ...

A sort of literary post ###ortem was held over the works of the late Sholom Aleichem, the Jewish humorist, when Jewish communists in Kiev staged a literatrial of Chave, the heroine of the humorist’s ...

WANDERING STAR (314 pp.)—Sholom Alelchem—Crown ($3). Some of the best modern writers have been self-conscious artists, working for the admiration of small followings and often requiring cabalistic ...

(JTA) Move over, Tevye the dairyman. Make room for Moshkele the thief, the rough and tumble rogue hero from the wrong side of the shtetl in a newly rediscovered work of fiction by Sholom Aleichem. The ...