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I saw it. Indeed, Sholem Aleichem is often called
the Jewish Mark Twain or the Yiddish Mark Twain.
As Mark Twain preserved for posterity in writing
the world of Old Times on the Mississippi,
pre-Civil War War Hannibal, MO, etc., Aleichem
conveyed in his writings the lives and living
environment of shtetl Jewry in Eastern Europe &
Russia. And like Twain, Aleichem was a humorist.
And like Twain, Aleichem wrote in a people's
vernacular. Frankly, I didn't find the
documentary particularly compelling as a film per
se -- it's like watching a somewhat dull but
informative PBS documentary, that sort of thing.
My elderly mother, daughter of Eastern European
Jewish immigrants, found the film very moving, but
she's a sucker for any of those old sepia photos
of her ancestors' life in the "old country." In
any event, Sholem Aleichem is a writer worth
knowing about (and fun to read) and worthy of the
"Jewish MT" or "Yiddish MT" appellation.
-Steve Hoffman
Takoma Park MD
On 11/1/2011 12:41 PM, Harold Bush wrote:
> Folks; I heard about this new film, which is in town here, about the
> "Jewish MT": a phrase with which I was not familiar.
>
> it's called "Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness" -- anyone seen it?
> We will try to see it Friday.
>
> sholemaleichemthemovie.com/
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> trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/sholemaleichemlaughinginthedarkness/
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