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Tag: Sholem Aleichem

  • Sholem Aleichem’s yortzayt

    Sholem Aleichem’s yortzayt

    We’re reaching the yortzayt of Sholem Aleichem (May 13, 1916); and I thought I’d show how translation became a sort of legacy in my family.  Below is a letter my grandfather received and passed down. I have the original.  Geneve, (Suisse) Rue Dancet, 1 1 July, 1907 Dear Friend Cassel, If the mountain doesn’t come…

  • B. Cassel

    B. Cassel

    My grandfather, Boruch Chaim Cassel, was born in Keidan, then part of the Russian empire, in 1877, and arrived in New York in 1904. He had served as a clerk in the Russian army and worked as a bookkeeper in Riga, but his first business enterprise in the U.S. was a candy store. The photos…