Author: Sholem AleichemPublisher: Putnam Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780399503948
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Old Country Tales
Author: Sholem AleichemPublisher: Putnam Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780399503948
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Old Country Tales [by] Sholom Aleichem
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Author: Sholem AleichemOld Country Tales [by] Sholom Aleichem
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Author: Sholem AleichemThe Old Country
Author: Sholem AleichemPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The Old Country
Author: Collected Stories of Sholom Aleichem
Author: Sholem AleichemThe Old Country
Author: Sholem-AleykhemPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories, Yiddish
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Collected Stories of Sholom Aleichem
Author: Sholem AleichemMoshkeleh the Thief
Author: Sholem AleichemPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 082761876X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
This first English translation of Sholom Aleichem's rediscovered novel, Moshkeleh the Thief, has a riveting plot, an unusual love story, and a keenly observed portrayal of an underclass Jew replete with characters never before been seen in Yiddish literature. The eponymous hero, Moshkeleh, is a robust chap and horse thief. When Tsireleh, daughter of a tavern keeper, flees to a monastery with the man she loves--a non-Jew she met at the tavern--the humiliated tavern keeper's family turns to Moshkeleh for help, not knowing he too is in love with her. For some unknown reason, this innovative novel does not appear in the standard twenty-eight-volume edition of Sholom Aleichem's collected works, published after his death. Strikingly, Moshkeleh the Thief shows Jews interacting with non-Jews in the Russian Pale of Settlement--a groundbreaking theme in modern Yiddish literature. This novel is also important for Sholom Aleichem's approach to his material. Yiddish literature had long maintained a tradition of edelkeyt, refinement. Authors eschewed violence, the darker side of life, and people on the fringe of respectability. Moshkeleh thus enters a Jewish arena not hitherto explored in a novel.
Tevye the Dairyman and The Railroad Stories
Author: Sholem AleichemPublisher: Schocken
ISBN: 0307795241
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Of all the characters in modern Jewish fiction, the most beloved is Tevye, the compassionate, irrepressible, Bible-quoting dairyman from Anatevka, who has been immortalized in the writings of Sholem Aleichem and in acclaimed and award-winning theatrical and film adaptations. And no Yiddish writer was more beloved than Tevye’s creator, Sholem Rabinovich (1859–1916), the “Jewish Mark Twain,” who wrote under the pen name of Sholem Aleichem. Beautifully translated by Hillel Halkin, here is Sholem Aleichem’s heartwarming and poignant account of Tevye and his daughters, together with the “Railroad Stories,” twenty-one tales that examine human nature and modernity as they are perceived by men and women riding the trains from shtetl to shtetl.