Arguing the World is the story of four brilliant and engaging men caught up in the central struggles of our time. This enthralling film creates a vivid picture of intellectual life in the 20th century. For more than half a century, Irving Howe, Daniel Bell, Nathan Glazer and Irving Kristol have all passionately believed that ideas can change the world-especially their ideas.

Sholem Aleichem is now most widely familiar as the author of the stories that formed the basis of the musical “Fiddler on the Roof.” This will be the first full-length documentary-film portrait of the life, work, and legacy of the most popular and influential Yiddish writer of modern times. In the final decades of the nineteenth century, Sholem Aleichem emerged as one of the most influential literary voices among East European Jews.