The Comedy of Crisis

In 1899 Sholem Aleichem launched the career of Kasrilevke, an imaginary town of Yiddish-speaking Jews. Kasrilevke’s faith in the ultimate triumph of good over evil was tested most severely during the trial of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, when political antisemitism went public on the pages of the world press. Learn how Sholem Aleichem cut this crisis down to comic size by turning the shtetl from a proverbial town of fools into a collective comic hero.  

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