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Tomorrow's premiere at the Royal Theater at 11523 Santa Monica Boulevard in West LA includes an introduction by special guest Theodore Bikel and a discussion with filmmaker Joseph Dorman. The film continues its run from August 5th through the 11th in both West LA and Encino, the film will also hit silver screens in Claremont, Pasadena and over the next month. 
 

Laughing in the Darkness explores the classic author's universe -- the world of our grandparents and great-grandparents whose immigration to the United States forged the present-day American Jewish community. It's a story that parallels all great American immigration sagas, but a story with its own unique flavors -- bitter and sweet.   

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Far from the folksy grandfather many people mistake him to be, Sholem Aleichem was a sophisticated modern writer and cosmopolitan intellectual, an artist the equal of Russian giants like Chekhov or Gogol or Isaac Babel. His work left lasting legacies in Israel and the Soviet Union, as well as in America to which Sholem Aleichem immigrated twice, and where he died in 1916. His funeral was attended by some 200,000 people. It was the largest public funeral the city had ever witnessed. In the following decades, Sholem Aleichem's work, especially his Teyve stories, would be interpreted time and again by an American Jewish community whose own identity was evolving over time. 

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Los Angeles Premiere at the

Majestic Laemmle Royal Theater 

Introduction by special guest Theodore Bikel
Post-film Q&A with director Joseph Dorman

PRESENTED BY YIDDISHKAYT  

Friday, August 5th, 2011 - 7:30 PM

Laemmle Royal Theater (TICKETS) 

11523 Santa Monica Blvd., West LA, 90025