Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness reviews, similar movies, on demand links, and discussion

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Wick 66 Trust Points Read Full Review » Trust This Reviewer WikChip - Image Biggest Funeral in NYC History More » Created Apr 13, 2013 02:07PM PST Edited Sep 16, 2021 05:15PM PST	Great 4.0 The "Jewish Mark Twain" reanimates in this engaging and illuminating biography. Why the Yiddish Twain? Because the tw… More »	Great 4.0 Alan Rosenberg does a fine job as the Narrator. I realize he's had a long career, but I still think of him as Eli from… More »	Great 4.0 The film deftly uses the now standard Burnsian method of panning and zooming across still images, voice-overs of key ch… More »	Tame 1.2	Natural 1.0 You gotta love that Sholem Aleichem got his start by creating an alphabetic glossary of his stepmother's epithets. The… More »

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Great 4.0

The "Jewish Mark Twain" reanimates in this engaging and illuminating biography. Why the Yiddish Twain? Because the tw…

Great 4.0

Alan Rosenberg does a fine job as the Narrator. I realize he's had a long career, but I still think of him as Eli from…

Great 4.0

The film deftly uses the now standard Burnsian method of panning and zooming across still images, voice-overs of key ch…

Tame 1.2

Natural 1.0

You gotta love that Sholem Aleichem got his start by creating an alphabetic glossary of his stepmother's epithets. The…

Apr 16, 2013 7:48AM

Wick

Regarding Wick’s Review
Thanks. Yeah, not sure I knew they’d met. Imagine the quips.

Apr 16, 2013 12:41AM

BrettHarrison

Regarding Wick’s Review
Nice review. Makes me want to see it. Two cool pieces of trivia you may or may not know. First of all, Aleichem and Twain met. Aleichem told him “They say I’m the Jewish Mark Twain” to which Twain responded, “Correction, I am the American Sholom Aleichem” Number two: when Aleichem died in 1916 his funeral in Queens attracted(this is true) 100,000 plus mourners, making it the biggest funeral ever held at that time.

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Senna 2010 Documentary	Trust Weighted	83
More Than a Game 2008 Documentary	Trust Weighted	83
Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin' 2013	Trust Weighted	66
The Book of Manning 2013	Trust Weighted	66

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More Than a Game

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Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin'

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The Book of Manning

2013

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Genre	Biography Documentary
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Protagonists	Jewish-Americans Writers Jews
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Period	19th Century
Source	Actual Events
Location	New York City Ukraine

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