“I began researching this book in Los Angeles, as a UCLA/Mellon Fellow. For the opportunity to read Sholem Aleichem on the Santa Monica boardwalk (and have ‘Vos makht a yid’ shouted at me by a roller-skating passerby), my thanks…” –from the Acknowledgements section, The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem by Jeremy Dauber. ++++ This is not […]