A portrait of the Russian novelist Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) adorned the office of Sholem Aleichem (1859-1916), the renowned Yiddish writer. According to Amelia Glaser, a professor of Russian and comparative literature at the University of California in San Diego, Sholem Aleichem’s attachment to Gogol was anything but surprising. Sholem Aleichem, whose real name was Sholem […]
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Nikolai Gogol’s Influence On Sholem Aleichem
