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  Classic Yiddish Stories of S.Y. Abramovitsh, Sholem Aleichem, and I.L. Peretz (Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art)

  by Sholem Aleichem

  Runner-up in the 2005 National Jewish Book Award in the Anthologies and Collections category. A comprehensive collection of best short fiction by the three classic Yiddish authors. Two early works by S.Y. Abramovitsh introduce the reader to Abramovitsh's alter ego Mendele the Book Peddler. Mendele narrates both The Little Man and Fishke the Lame. In different voices, he also presents a diverse cast of... (more)
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  Sholom's Treasure: How Sholom Aleichem Became a Writer

  by Erica Silverman

  The boy whose stories became Fiddler on the Roof Sholom Aleichem's favorite childhood memory may have been listening as his father read stories aloud on Saturday nights and a roomful of adults burst out laughing. Sholom wanted to make people laugh, too. At school he became the class clown. At home he imitated even his pious grandmother. But Sholom was also thoughtful. In Russia in the 1800s, life was especially... (more)
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  Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories (Library of Yiddish Classics)

  by Sholem Aleichem, Hillel Halkin

  A superb introduction to the caustic wit and keen observations of one of the world's greatest storytellers. Included are "Tevye the Dairyman, " his masterpiece and the basis for Fiddler on the Roof, and all 21 Railroad Stories, in which human nature and the various shocks of modernity are perceived by men and women riding the trains from shtetl to shtetl.
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  Wandering Stars

  by Sholem Aleichem

  The first complete translation of an epic love story by the creator of Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof Next year marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of the great Yiddish humorist Sholem Aleichem as well as the 100th anniversary of the publication of Wandering Stars , his sprawling love story spanning ten years and two continents, and set in the colorful world of the Yiddish theater. In a Russian shtetl at... (more)
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  Tevye's Daughters: Collected Stories of Sholom Aleichem

  by Sholem Aleichem