'Sholem Aleichem Laughing In The Darkness'

It's a documentary on streamline on Netflix
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfx5tOBbe6U
For the Hasidic i don't have to introduce this Ukrainian writer.
200,000 people were at his funeral in NY.
They show old photos and movies and, i have the impression to see my family, despite my family is Lithuanian. We are all brothers and sisters. :-)
Before the pogroms, the question of the integration of the Jews in the Ukrainian society is already asked.
Sholem's father made the choice to be a 'modern' Jew. He sent his son to a secular school.
Why the Jews stay together and only speak Yiddish…? Some have tried not to rejected by the Ukrainian society.

The repetition of history against the Jews… What is the main reason to attack them all the time?
Adolph Hitler didn't hate them before meeting a man in Vienna. This man told him that most of the owners of theater, newspapers… were Jewish… They were responsible of the crisis because they were the only decision-makers. And for this man, they were not Austrian, they were Jewish before being a citizen. In Austria, the church is separated from the state since a long time.
Human beings always need a scape-goat. Hitler found the Jews. I read it in Mein Kampf. I bought it because i wanted to know who was this monster who could plan so many massacres. As all we know politicians lie, Hitler didn't lie but nobody could believe such a thing.
When i bought the book, i asked a friend of mine whom the brother has a bookstore. They are half-Jewish like me. He found an editor who publishes books about all extremisms. I didn't want to give money to a fascist editor, no way!

Someone said that the Jews had to change but Sholem Aleichem didn't claim that. Why do they have to change?

This documentary is very modern, asking the same issues that we can meet these days.
The first Jewish immigrants in America found serenity by creating their own schools, shul…

Williamsburg is like a shetl. I have the impression that everyone knows everyone.
The stores are mainly on Lee Avenue and Bedford avenue and you can meet the same people here and there. I like going to these old stores where it smells furniture polish and old books.

The adaptation of Fiddler On The Roof by Hollywood changed the end of the story. Sholem's story was not Hollywood-able enough!

Look at this peyos which look like dreadlocks. :-)