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

September 8, 2016 YIVO Institute for Jewish Research The Annual Naomi Prawer Kadar Memorial Lecture Sholem Aleichem was the greatest Jewish writer of the modern era; his works spoke deeply and broadly to the Jews of his time – and of ours. Jeremy Dauber, professor of Yiddish at Columbia and the author of the first comprehensive biography of the writer, discusses Sholem Aleichem's life, his work, and his legacy – and the struggle to encapsulate all of that between two hard covers. https://www.yivo.org/13-Ways https://www.yivo.org/Membership http://naomi.org/