Tales from the Train: Sholem Aleichem 100 Years Later

with Allen Lewis Rickman, Yelena Shmulenson, and Shane Baker.  Presented by the New York Public Library.  Free and open to the public, seating first come first served.

Did a nudnik ever buttonhole you and chew your ear off?  Did you ever realize you were in the wrong place at the wrong time?  Did you ever try to talk sense into an imbecile?  Sholem Aleichem did all of this and more a hundred years before we did, and his descriptions of life in Eastern Europe and early 20th-century New York.  Enjoy an evening of the rib-tickling, heart-rending tales of the most beloved Yiddish writer of all time.

Free Staged Reading in English and Yiddish with English translations.