Sholem Aleichem Between Yiddish and Hebrew

On June 30, 2013, the literary critic and poet Dr. Velvl Chernin presented his Russian lecture “War and Peace of Languages. Sholem Aleichem between Yiddish and Hebrew”. The even was held at the Beit Avi Chai Cultural Center in Jerusalem.

The lecture touched upon such topics as Sholem Aleichem’ opinion on Zionism, the controversy between Yiddishists and Hebraists, the classic’s own Hebrew writings and the problems of translating Sholem Aleichem’s Yiddish works into Hebrew.