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Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness is an American biographical documentary film about Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem, who is best known for his stories about Tevye the Dairyman, the basis for the musical Fiddler on the Roof.
Jul 8, 2011 · Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness: Directed by Joseph Dorman. With Rachel Dratch, Hillel Halkin, Jason Kravits, Dan Miron. A riveting portrait of the great writer whose stories became the basis of the Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof.
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- Documentary
- Joseph Dorman
- 2011-07-08
Jul 7, 2011 · By Stephen Holden. July 7, 2011. “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,...
- Stephen Holden
- Joseph Dorman
This documentary tells the story of Sholem Aleichem with many photographs and early films, most of them not showing him but re-creating the world that produced him. There are many scholars and critics here, most of them useful and pleasant, who obviously love him.
Jul 8, 2011 · Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness serves as an effective primer on its subject, as well as an evocative portrait of the era in which he lived. Filmmaker Joseph Dorman presents the...
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- Documentary
- Joseph Dorman
Jul 3, 2011 · In Joseph Dorman’s incisive documentary Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness, the filmmaker not only sets up the writer’s life as representative of the transitions of early modern Jewish life, but posits his oeuvre as an ongoing chronicle of the shift from a vibrant, unified Yiddish culture to a fractured world-in-exile, a body of work ...
Jul 6, 2011 · Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness tells the tale of the rebellious genius who created an entirely new literature. Plumbing the depths of a Jewish world locked in crisis and on the cusp of profound change, he captured that world with brilliant humor.
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