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The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem

Joshua Cohen

Harper’s, Oct. 17, 2013

Jeremy Dauber on the remarkable life and afterlife of the man who created Tevye the Dairyman

by Joshua Cohen on October 17, 2013

Jeremy Dauber is the Atran Professor of Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture and Director of the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia University. He is also a friend. Whenever we meet, I’m awed by his luck — he crosses Broadway without taking his face out of whatever book he’s reading — and by his wisdom — he knows everything there is to know about Yiddish literature of the turn of the century, and about sci-fi literature of the turn of the millennium.

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