Sholem Aleichem- Laughing in the Darkness

“‘Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness’ is much more than a documentary biography of “the Jewish Mark Twain,” as the creator of Tevye the Dairyman, Menachem-Mendl and other beloved folkloric characters has been called. It is a rich, beautifully organized and illustrated modern history of Eastern European Jewry examined through the life and work of the author, born Sholem Rabinovich in Pereyaslav (near Kiev) in 1859.”

–The New York Times

-Critics’ Pick, New York Times, 2011