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October 23, 2015

What Happens When a Great Hebrew Poet Visits a Great Yiddish Novelist and Goes Home Without His Shoes?

Will Bialik get the shoes back?

In 1907, Ḥaim Naḥman Bialik paid a visit to Sholem Aleichem, then living in Geneva, and on his departure forgot to take his slippers. His host wrote him a characteristically playful letter:

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