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Sholem Aleichem: Laughing In The Darkness

6.2 93 mins Documentary   History   2012
Director(s): Joseph Dorman

Release Date: 24 Fri, Feb 2012

A riveting portrait of the great writer whose stories became the basis of the Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof. Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness tells the tale of the rebellious genius who created an entirely new literature. Plumbing the depths of a Jewish world locked in crisis and on the cusp of profound change, he captured that world with brilliant humor. Sholem Aleichem was not just a witness to the creation of a new modern Jewish identity, but one of the very men who forged it.

Casts of Sholem Aleichem: Laughing In The Darkness

Rachel Dratch

as Shayne Sheyndl

Hillel Halkin

as Himself

Jason Kravits

as Menachem Mendi

Dan Miron

as Himself

Peter Riegert

as Tevye

Alan Rosenberg

as Narrator

David Roskies

as Himself

Ruth Wisse

as Herself

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