Word: sholom
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...that Mark Twain did not stay around Boston long enough to again meet his Russian-Jewish counterpart, Sholom Aleichem. Sholom Aleichem was the greatest of Yiddish folk writers and there will be no more great ones. Sholom Aleichem and Isaac Peretz, another master storyteller, have provided Arnold Perl with the material which Perl has transformed into excellent theatre. The Boston six day engagement is an all too brief revival of the 1953 New York hit. It is a world of bittersweet laughter, presented in the form of three short sketches...
...regrets are quashed by Sholom Aleichem's story The High School. This last sketch brings together brilliance of acting, direction, and story. Perl, in adopting a technique of surface discontinuity of story, actually heightens the underlying continuity of emotion. Morris Carnovsky plays to perfection the role of a father who can't see why his son should want to go to a gentile school instead of following his tracks into the business. But his wife is determined, and Carnovsky's only strength seems to be his wit; this is sad since his wit is less honed than that...
...Philadelphia, not far from the scene of their first battle for the heavyweight boxing crown in 1926, Manassa Mauler Jack Dempsey, 62, and Gentleman Gene Tunney, 60, met again, looking remarkably well-preserved-and strikingly alike. They received plaques from the Brith Sholom lodge for "their notable achievements and outstanding contributions in the sports world and for devoted service to American youth." Pingponging compliments with the man who beat him twice in the ring, well-heeled Manhattan Restaurateur Dempsey turned to Millionaire...
...narrow, closed-in existence. The only escape lay inward-in wild frenzies of Hasidic worship or in equally wild flights of the imagination. In this kind of life, the storytellers became the soul's best physicians; drawing on their tradition, later writers such as Russia's Sholom Aleichem created a whole literature in which pain and happiness, the worldly and the supernatural come together under a canopy of wry humor. Two books, written by exiles from Eastern Europe, have much of Aleichem's rewarding piety...
...upside down and irradiates it with originality. His hero is Morris Bober, an aging Brooklyn grocer who is clinging to solvency by his fingertips. But Morris is also that legendary Jewish figure of misfortune, the schlemiel, whose fate has been told and retold from the Old Testament to Sholom Aleichem. Bobers good intentions gain him nothing but hard knocks. The only dangers he escapes are imaginary ones. Yet, through all his woes, there shines unblinkingly the steady light of a good heart...