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The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem: The Remarkable Life and Afterlife of the Man Who Created Tevye (Jewish Encounters Series) Hardcover – October 8, 2013

by Jeremy Dauber (Author)
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  • Series: Jewish Encounters Series
  • Hardcover: 464 pages
  • Publisher: Schocken (October 8, 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0805242783
  • ISBN-13: 978-0805242782
  • Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 1.2 x 8.7 inches
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5.0 out of 5 starsChava, oh Chava, have I got a book for you!
By Love the 19th century on October 21, 2013
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I love reading about the nineteenth century so I was inclined to purchase this book. This is far more interesting and engaging than I anticipated. First off, you learn about the vicissitudes of Sholom Aleichem's life. Second, the author, Jeremy Dauber, summarizes aspects of Jewish and world history so that you understand the context within which the events of Sholom Aleichem's life unfolded. This is a good way to review all the history that you "learned" in college when you were really sleeping through lectures. Weren't you? There are footnotes, but the prose is not bogged down in research or in overly complicated academic language. The author summarizes many of Sholom Aleichem's works and analyzes their significance in the canon. I forgot that I stashed a collection of Sholom Aleichem's work in my office when the library was getting rid of extra/old books. Now I will be able to use Dauber's discussions to choose which stories to read first. The final section explains how his works were slightly changed depending on the politics of who was presenting them at a specific time. All in all, the book explains why the cliche line from "Sunrise, Sunset" is a great summary of Sholom Aleichem's perspective on life -- "One season following another, laden with happiness and tears." I enjoyed reading this book and I learned a lot from it.
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5.0 out of 5 starsIf you read one more book, this should be it.
By DukeTwo on November 14, 2013
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If you read one more book, it should be Jeremy Dauber's, The Worlds of Sholom Aleichem. If you have already read it, then you will agree that if you read only one more book, you should read this one again. Insofar as Jews were at the center of modernization of the western world, Sholom Aleichem was at the center of that Jewish experience. Dauber explains Sholom Aleichem in a clear narrative, deftly relating biographical details to details in Sholom Aleichem's stories and essays, all in a style that echoes Sholom Aleichem's own engaging literary style and humane sensibility. It is as though the reader encounters Professor Dauber on a train, and Dauber says, "Yesterday, I met a man who asked me to tell you about the most extraordinary person . . . " Few will read Sholom Aleichem in the original Yiddish. Thankfully, Jeremy Dauber is available to all the world.
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4.0 out of 5 starssomething missing
By Bennett Muraskin on January 1, 2014
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Sholem Aleichem was a humorist. He had a serious side to be sure, but the great pleasure from reading his short stories and some his novels (not so much his plays, which are of inferior quality) is that they are FUNNY. That does not come out from reading Dauber's biography.

Furthermore he insists on explaining every thing Sholem Aleichem wrote in terms of what was going on in his personal life or in the current events in the society in which he lived. Writers have creative minds that do not work this way.

In my opinion, Dauber is a better biographer than he is a literary critic.

That said, my four star rating means that is still an excellent book and being the only biography of Sholem Aleichem, there is nothing else to compare it to. Hats off (or on, if you are observant) to Dauber for completing this project.
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5.0 out of 5 starsGreat Piece
By Foster E. Kawaler on December 25, 2013
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Great piece. Eminently readable. Good picture of the man without all of the heavy, philosophical clutter that, often in books like this, obfuscate the picture of the man and his times.
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5.0 out of 5 starsExcellent read!
By luxury55 on December 16, 2013
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I love history and biographies. This book was great and on someone we all know (because of fiddler on the roof) but don't know we know and don't know much about. Very happy with my purchase.
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5.0 out of 5 starsExcellent biography of Sholem Aleichem
By Rebecca Hammond on December 28, 2013
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The detailed history of this man, and the way in which "Fidler On The Roof" was written and produced was
not only enlightening, but also gives a very large insight into the history of the times.
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2.0 out of 5 starsPoorly written
By CM Ramirez on March 12, 2014
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The subject is interesting but I found the endless run-on sentences to be confusing and distracting and the folksy tone to be annoying. I don't know how this got in print with its poor writing style. Such a shame as the topic deserved much much better.
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