Word: sholom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Acting Director of the University Health Services Dr. Sholom Postel phoned The Crimson last night after close to a dozen concerned students called UHS alerting the emergency staff there to the poster...
...WORLD OF SHOLOM ALEICHEM...
...wrote Anton Chekhov to Solomon Rabinovich. The attraction of disciple and master seemed strange at the time: Rabinovich was an obscure Jew who wrote under the name Sholom Aleichem (literally, peace be unto you). Chekhov was a renowned and worldly physician-writer nearing the end of his life...
Since then, Sholom Aleichem has suffered a worse kind of obscurity: success. The ethnic narcissism of Fiddler on the Roof, based on his Tevye stories, has drowned his oeuvre in a chorus of If I Were a Rich Man and Sunrise, Sunset. The World of Sholom Aleichem attempts to whisper where Fiddler bellowed, to reclaim the writer from the ripoffs. But, as the Yiddish proverb has it, you can't pull two hides off one ox. The musical used Aleichem to carry the tunes; the material is now too depleted to carry an evening...