Sholem Aleichem : laughing in the darkness / a film by Joseph Dorman.

Format
Video/Projected medium
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Filmakers Library : Riverside Films : New Video, [2012]
Description
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

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    Medium/​Support
    4 3/4 in.
    Summary note
    A portrait of writer Sholem Aleichem, whose stories about Tevye the milkman became the basis of the Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof. Aleichem (1859-1916) was a rebellious wordsmith who created a new genre of literature and used his remarkable humor to encapsulate the realities of the Eastern European Jewish world in the late nineteenth century. Using a rich collection of archival footage, the film recreates a time in czarist Russia when Jews were second-class citizens and frequent scapegoats in times of social and political unrest.
    Notes
    • Winner: Jerusalem International Film Festival.
    • Special features: Making the film; on Sholem Aleichem.
    • Originally produced as a motion picture in 2011.
    Creation/​Production credits
    Director, Joseph Dorman.
    System details
    DVD, full screen (1.33:1) presentation.
    Awards
    Jerusalem International Film Festival
    Participant(s)/​Performer(s)
    With commentaries from Bella Kaufman (Aleichem's 100-year-old granddaughter), Aaron Lansky of the Yiddish Book Center, and Professor Ruth Wisse of Harvard University.
    Other title(s)
    Laughing in the darkness
    ISBN
    • 9781463110703
    • 1463110707
    Publisher no.
    NNVG284351
    OCLC
    806474379
    Universal Product Code
    • 767685284353
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