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Title Sholem Aleichem : laughing in the darkness / a film by Joseph Dorman.

Publication Info. New York : Filmakers Library : Riverside Films : New Video, [2012]

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  DVD 839.1 ALEICHEM    Check Shelf
Description 1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
digital optical
video file DVD video rda
System Details DVD, full screen (1.33:1) presentation.
Performer With commentaries from Bella Kaufman (Aleichem's 100-year-old granddaughter), Aaron Lansky of the Yiddish Book Center, and Professor Ruth Wisse of Harvard University.
Summary A portrait of writer Sholem Aleichem, whose stories about Tevye the milkman became the basis of the Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof. Aleichem (1859-1916) was a rebellious wordsmith who created a new genre of literature and used his remarkable humor to encapsulate the realities of the Eastern European Jewish world in the late nineteenth century. Using a rich collection of archival footage, the film recreates a time in czarist Russia when Jews were second-class citizens and frequent scapegoats in times of social and political unrest.
Note Special features: Making the film; on Sholem Aleichem.
GMD: videorecording.
Subject Sholem Aleichem, 1859-1916.
Authors, Yiddish -- Biography.
Jews, East European -- 19th century -- Social conditions.
Jews, East European -- History.
Added Author Dorman, Joseph, 1958-
Kaufman, Bel.
Lansky, Aaron, 1955-
Wisse, Ruth R.
Riverside Films.
Filmakers Library, inc.
New Video Group.
Added Title Laughing in the darkness
ISBN 9781463110703
1463110707
Standard No. 767685284353
Music No. NNVG284351 Filmmakers Library
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