Letters from Sholem Aleichem

Recent Accession

B. Cassel was the editor of the newsletter of the Keidaner Association. An epistolary relationship developed between him and Sholem Aleichem. Cassel’s grandson, Andrew W. Cassel, has now donated 19 pages, in Yiddish and in Russian, of letters from Sholem Aleichem, as well as from the latter’s son-in-law, Yiddish and Hebrew writer Y. D. Berkowitz, and from Olga Rabinowitz, Sholem Aleichem’s wife. These letters provide evidence of Sholem Aleichem’s strenuous efforts to be translated, his financial worries, and his admiration for the cultural Zionist, Judah Magnes.