Sholem Aleichem

And why Volodymyr Zelensky should be considered a Jewish hero.

Jan. 3 2023 12:01AM

The name is comical and magical at once, designating a city of broad boulevards and fancy shop windows known to Sholem Aleichem’s Tevye the dairyman and others.

March 9 2022 12:01AM

The Mosaic columnist joins us to talk about her new podcast and the poetry and literature it will explore.

Feb. 18 2022 12:01AM

And the Yiddish song that embodies shtetl nostalgia.

Jan. 17 2022 12:01AM

Moshkeleh the Thief.

Curt Leviant and Sholem Aleichem
March 24 2021 12:01AM

A fictional peddler reflects on the imponderability of anti-Semitism.

Sholem Aleichem
Sept. 21 2020 12:01AM

Moshkele the thief.

Sholem Aleichem
April 20 2020 12:01AM

The renowned expert on Yiddish literature stops by to talk everything Tevye, Fiddler, Sholem Aleichem, and more.

Aug. 15 2019 12:01AM

Once a bustling, but unliterary, Jewish community.

July 26 2019 12:01AM

A Rich Brew.

Jeffrey Yoskowitz
Sept. 28 2018 12:01AM

Yiddish literature’s best-known character.

July 20 2018 12:01AM

Translation, retranslation, and un-translation.

Alisa Solomon
June 29 2018 12:01AM