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YIVO Examines the Complexities of Writing Sholem Aleichem's Biography

8/22/2016

Professor Dauber will discuss the life, work, and legacy of the great Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem (Sholem Rabinovitsh) and the difficulties Dauber faced in writing the first comprehensive biography about the author.

Thursday Sep 8 7:00pm
2016

Thirteen Ways of Looking at Sholem Aleichem: Notes from a Yiddish Writer's Biographer

Come hear Jeremy Dauber, author of the first comprehensive biography of Sholem Aleichem, talk about Aleichem's life, his work, and his legacy – and the struggle to encapsulate all of that between two hard covers.

Thursday Oct 17 7:00pm
2013

The Remarkable Life and Afterlife of Sholem Aleichem

Novelist, playwright, journalist, essayist, and editor, Sholem Aleichem was one of the founding giants of modern Yiddish literature.

Sunday Nov 1 2:00pm
2015

Hope and Fear: Y. L. Peretz and the Forging of Modern Jewish Culture

On the 100th anniversary of Peretz's death, Michael Steinlauf, Jeremy Dauber, Ken Frieden, and Martin Peretz discuss the great Yiddish author’s contributions to folklore, literary culture, and Jewish political consciousness.

Congratulations to National Jewish Book Award Winners

1/17/2014

YIVO congratulates the winners of the 2013 National Jewish Book Award, especially our colleagues: Hasia Diner & Gennady Estraikh, editors of 1929: Mapping the Jewish World Gennady Estraikh is teaching a course on Jewish Literary Life in the Soviet Union for the YIVO-Bard Winter Program on Ashkenazi Civilization. Elissa Bemporad, author of Becoming ...