. Review of reviews and world's work. oftheir old homes across theocean. But it was in thehearts of .the war-tornJewries of Russia and Po-land that the news of Sho-lem Aleichems death re-verberated most profoundlyand painfully. For Sho-lem Aleichem, which meansPeace with you (his realname was Sholem Rabinf)- iiwich), was a Russian Jew, \who had spent nearly allhis lifetime in the Jewishpale, and has immortal-ized the inhabitants of war found him inwestern Kurope, and to thiscountry he came only for alkichkmthe duration of the struc-u\e. The (M«»*cow) saidedito
. Review of reviews and world's work. oftheir old homes across theocean. But it was in thehearts of .the war-tornJewries of Russia and Po-land that the news of Sho-lem Aleichems death re-verberated most profoundlyand painfully. For Sho-lem Aleichem, which meansPeace with you (his realname was Sholem Rabinf)- iiwich), was a Russian Jew, \who had spent nearly allhis lifetime in the Jewishpale, and has immortal-ized the inhabitants of war found him inwestern Kurope, and to thiscountry he came only for alkichkmthe duration of the struc-u\e. The (M«»*cow) saideditorially: In ihe person of ihr drmiteii there went downinto hi^ Kravr ihr Krrairti painter of the lifeof the rnnirmporary jrw, a krdi arti«t, Mrho ha«f ! in Kolfl friirf a whole •Irrali of jrwi»h «i « and hK«rr«, with thrir iraditional, ccniurie«-old m/xle* of life, with the Art\> »or-row* and ralm, idyllic joy* of that life Then«w rurrrnf* that have appeared in ihit patri-archal, firmly rrmentrd order of thinK«; the. painful transition to new forms of life; the lackof solid foundation, the wanderings, full ofyearnings; all that has been imprinted in thekind-hearted, fine humor of Sholem was the poet of the peoples soul, and itis seldom that one has as much luck as he hadin being understood, in becoming near and be-loved to all the different classes of the Jewishpeople. From the most obscure corners of theRussian and Galician ghettosto the noisy New York andBuenos Aires, Sholem Alei-chems stories made heartstremble, eyes sparkle with joyand laughter, evoking tearsof mirth and sadness. In the same newspaper,Bal Machshevcs, probablythe foremost Yiddish liter-ary critic, contributes aeulogy to the great Jewishhumorist. He began towrite in Yiddish at a timewhen that noclaim to ati\ such name, ata time when there was noYiddish press and no \ i»l-TiiK iiUMOKiST ,lisli literature. SholemAleiehem was a was a champion of the tongue
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