Sholom Aleichem's `Inside Kasrilevke'
Enhanced by 30 of Shahn's Drawings
"Fiddler on the Roof" served
to arouse new interest in Sholom
Aleichem and especially to intro-
duce the great Yiddish humorist's
works to non-Jews. It re-introduced i
Sholom Aleichem to Jews.
It is not to be inferred, how-
ever, that Sholom Aleichem was
unknown. The many works by him
and about him that have been
published in recent years reaf-
firm that the humorist never ceased
to be an attraction to readers of
all faiths.
A new volume containing trans-
lations of his stories into Eng-
lish attests to this fact. Schocken
One of 30 drawings by Ben
Shahn in "Inside Kasrilevke."
just issued Sholom
Aleichem's "Inside Krasrilevke."
Translated from the Yiddish by
Isidore Goldstick, it contains the
stories "Dos Naye Kasrilevke,"
"Kasrilevke Nisrofim" and "Kas-
rilevke Moshav Z'Kenim."
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The Kasrilevke characters who
pass in review, the fascinating
stories about their attitudes on
life, the problems they face and
the manner in which they under-
take to solve them, once again
bring to light the Sholom Alei-
chem genius that was able to
brilliantly bring to the world's
attention the dilemmas of the
folk he portrays with such skill.
These are not the same people
who appear in "Tevye" and as they
are depicted on the stage in "The
Fiddler." But they are-elated.
Their actions, their thinking is
the same.
The author's foreword is a fore-
warning. He tells the reader that
just as there are guides to Berlin,
Moscow, Paris, why not one to
Kasrilevke? And he calls his "In-
side Kasilevke" a "guide" to the
name of a city he had made
famous.
And so the people and their
life, Kasrilevke and its neighbor-
ing Yehupetz, are described in
the • humor-satire of the great
Yiddish writer.
The reader will learn about the
fire in Kasrilevke—and that's an
experience. He'll find a new life
in a community that is introduced
to the great Adler and to the the-
ater.
And then there is the hilarious
story about the restaurant—the
lady who makes a real formality
of serving the traveler who comes
to the eatery for some food. He
is willing to settle for any food,
but the manner in which he finally
gets his herring and the finally
acquired bread creates a real
drama out of a "feast."
There is the description of the
hotel; ideologies and other fac-
tors are elements in the stories
that have become famous in the
humor of Sholom Aleichem.
Spinoza Rejected Maimonides'
Ideas and Feuer's Study Asserts
There are the musicians who will
remind the reader of "The Fid-
dler."
Indeed, there is humor and
pathos in "Inside Kasrilevke." It
is the vigorous work of a great
writer.
This newly-translated collec-
"Spinoza and the Rise of Lib-
eralism" by Lewis Samuel Feuer
is exactly what the title of the
new Beacon Press paperback im-
plies: it is a description of the
Spinozist philosophy and the politi-
tion of Sholom Aleichem sto- cal science that placed him in the
ries is additionally enhanced by role of the pioneer for the cause
of human liberalism.
the 30 drawings by the eminent
The author, who is chairman of
artist, Ben Shahn. His work de-
picts the characters that have the social science integrated course
at the University of California,
emerged from the shtetl—and
he has caught the spirit that Berkeley, Calif., covers in great
detail the history of the time in
dominates over the humorist's
writings.
which Spinoza lived and the condi-
"Inside Kasrilevke" is another tions which led to his excom-
valuable addition to the collected munication.
works of Sholom Aleichem that
One senses an exoneration of
are available in English transla- Spinoza for having defied the
tions.
Jewish elders, for having chosen
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