October 13, 2011 • Page Image 54
…arts & entertainment >> on the cover Riveting Portrait Detroit native Joseph Dorman's new film tells tale of a literary giant. 44- When Sholem Aleichem died in 1916, his funeral was attended by 200,000 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 he created this kind of folksy persona. And that folksy persona ultimately was so successful that people mistook the per- sona as the man. "Even Jewish critics at the time Dorman elaborated, "perceived him as someone w...…

















































