Are the Pashtuns Hebrews?; Moshkeleh Steals His Way Into the Sholem Aleichem Canon; Dara Horn Works Her Way Through the Cairo Genizah

[View this email in your browser]( October 1, 2021 • Tishrei 25, 5782 # [Is the Taliban Jewish?]( [Our History Detective columnist investigates the supposed Hebrew origins of the Pashtun tribe](#) [BY DAN SHAPIRA](#) [Advertisement](#) # [Return of the Thief]( Rokhl’s Golden City: A new, belated translation of Sholem Aleichem’s ‘Moshkeleh’ raises the question of what gets left out of the Yiddish canon [BY ROKHL KAFRISSEN](#) # [The Enduring Power of the Torah]( [There’s no greater source of wisdom](#) [BY SOTONYE JACK](#) SHOLEM ALEICHEM’S ‘MOSHKELEH GANEV’ You can find the novella’s first three chapters [here]( [here]( and [here](. LISTEN TO TABLET # ADVENTURES WITH DEAD JEWS [Time Traveling Jews: Ep. 5]( The bizarre story of how multiple genius identical twins discovered a massive 900-year-old document dump in a closet in a Cairo synagogue … and what that time capsule reveals about how we remember the past OCTOBER 1, 2021 # # This email was sent to you by [Tablet Magazine](#) Tablet Magazine | P.O. Box 20079 | New York, NY 10001 [Remove me from this list]( | [Forward to a Friend]( You are receiving this email because you signed up at our website, www.tabletmag.com. Tablet Magazine P.O. Box 20079 New York, NY 10001 USA Email Marketing Powered by Mailchimp [Mailchimp Email Marketing](