Sholem aleichem biography of william shakespeare

          Sholem Aleichem does not comment on Shakespeare but frequently writes about Ibsen, Dickens, and Goethe, his preferred foreign authors....

          Shakespeare was himself the most famous adaptor of other writers's stories in literary history, and Harnick's midrashic brilliance (as to.

        1. Shakespeare was himself the most famous adaptor of other writers's stories in literary history, and Harnick's midrashic brilliance (as to.
        2. The Russian-speaking Yiddish author Sholem Aleichem () was, in his lifetime, a prolific popular writer and a failed playwright.
        3. Sholem Aleichem does not comment on Shakespeare but frequently writes about Ibsen, Dickens, and Goethe, his preferred foreign authors.
        4. Sholem Aleichem, born Sholem Rabinovitz in Ukraine in , was a highly regarded writer of Yiddish stories, novels, and plays prior to making his way to.
        5. Sholom Aleichem is an instance of this.

          6. How Tevye the Dairyman Became an International Superstar

          By Lisa Higgins

          Tevye the Dairyman leaps off the pages of Sholem Aleichem’s collected stories with such exuberance that he seems destined for worldwide renown – like many other larger-than-life literary characters.

          But even the indomitable Tevye could have remained locked in history and near obscurity if Fiddler on the Roof had never moved beyond its status as one of the world’s most unlikely musicals.

          Sholem Aleichem, born Sholem Rabinovitz in Ukraine in , was a highly regarded writer of Yiddish stories, novels, and plays prior to making his way to America in   His first few plays in his new country were “both artistic and financial failures…rejected by the New York Yiddish theater establishment.”1

          Nonetheless, Aleichem pursued adapting his Tevye stories and monologues into a play for the stage.

          In a letter to a fellow playwright he wrote: “The play contains both tragic and comic situations, jokes, songs, breathtaking