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    Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness

    2011 · Documentary · 1h 33m

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  1. Country. United States. 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. The film uses historical photographs, film, and audio, as well as analysis by scholars and ...

    • United States
    • Joseph Dorman
    • Joseph Dorman
    • John Zorn
  2. 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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  3. Jul 7, 2011 · Sholem Aleichem was a workaholic who, clad in an old bathrobe, would rise at 5 a.m. and write constantly, usually standing up. For more than 25 years he turned out a story a week.

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    • Joseph Dorman
  4. Jul 8, 2011 · Rated 4.5/5 Stars • Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/09/23 Full Review Audience Member is Sholem Aleichem an anagram for Holmes Michael ... Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness (2011 ...

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  5. Aug 5, 2011 · “Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness” is a beautifully made documentary that sets the record straight in a thoughtful, incisive way. Director Joseph Dorman has successfully combined ...

  6. Aug 24, 2011 · Yes, my dear friends, I can hear you asking, who is this big shot Solomon Rabinovich I have never heard a word about? That's not so important. Maybe you should call him by his other name, Sholem Aleichem. He's the subject of Joseph Dorman's documentary "Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness." While he worked all day losing his father-in-law's money in the markets and bragging he was ...

  7. 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 ...

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