Before tomorrow’s Sholom Aleichem lecture by Columbia University’s Jeremy Dauber, we thought we’d point out this essay on the links between Aleichem and Mark Twain:

About a hundred years ago, in New York, Sholom Aleichem was introduced to Mark Twain as “the Jewish Mark Twain,” already famous for his timeless stories of European life, by then considered classics. “I wanted to meet you,” Mark Twain said, “because I’m told that I’m the American Sholom Aleichem.”