(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 ...

Hanukkah -- the Jewish Feast of Lights -- ends tonight at sundown. Today's Beautiful Music features two selections. First, the American operatic tenor Jan Peerce sings Oif'n Prepetschok. Second, ...

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The musical “Fiddler on the Roof” first proclaimed Shalom Aleichem to Broadway audiences in 1964, with Zero Mostel belting out the iconic “If I Were a Rich Man” song as Tevye the Dairyman, the father ...

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 ...

When Fiddler on the Roof was staged at The Soraya at CSUN, audiences encountered more than Sholom Aleichem’s beloved characters brought to life on stage. Alongside the production, the David Labkovski ...

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 ...

(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 ...