Sholem Aleichem: A Conversation with Ruth Wisse and David Roskies

Filmed before an audience at the Yiddish Book Center

Last year, two of the world's most engaging Yiddish scholars—Ruth Wisse, recently retired from Harvard, and her brother, David Roskies of Hebrew University and the Jewish Theological Seminary—spent an afternoon on stage at the Yiddish Book Center discussing and debating their favorite Sholem Aleichem stories in a lively, freewheeling conversation. Filmmaker Joseph Dorman was on hand that day to record their conversation, now released on the hundreth anniversary of the death of the great writer, as Sholem Aleichem: A Conversation with Ruth Wisse and David Roskies.