Yekhiel Shraibman was born in 1913 to a very poor family in the Bessarabian town of Rashkev. He went to kheyaer and then to a Hebrew teachers’ seminary in Chemowitz where he was arrested for revolutionary activity. Moving to Bucharest he made European Job. Half-tragic, half-comic hero, he is portrayed as the traditional God-fearing Jew struggling to maintain his faith in a new world that threatens the cohesiveness of Jewish life.
Sholem Aleichem is the Jewish humorist, par excellence. His writing has often been characterized as “laughter through tears” and, indeed, behind his humor often lie poverty, sadness, and even tragedy. Critic Dan Miron says, in the Enq/dopaedia Judaka, Vol. 14, p. 1285, “The tragedy is not absent from any of his important works. Everywhere lurks death, madness, a culture on the threshold of disintegration, shattered hopes, ruined dreams. They are however counterposed by a zest for life, an unspoiled freshness, an unceasing ability to renew oneself, recuperate, and regenerate.”
6 thoughts on “Kaminos”
Was Nicholas related to Alexander Saslavsky who married Celeste Izolee Todd?
Anyone have a contact email for Yair Klinger or link to score for Ha-Bayta?
wish to have homeland concert video played on the big screen throughout North America.
can organize here in Santa Barbara California.
contacts for this needed and any ideas or suggestions welcomed.
Nat farber is my great grandpa 😊
Are there any movies or photos of max kletter? His wife’s sister was my stepmother, so I’m interested in seeing them and sharing them with his wife’s daughter.
The article says Sheb recorded his last song just 4 days before he died, but does not tell us the name of it. I be curious what it was. I’d like to hear it.