Tevye the Dairyman and The Railroad Stories
$37.82
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
15 November 1996
Summary
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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780805210699 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0805210695 |
| Author: | Sholem Aleichem |
| Publisher: | Schocken Books |
| Imprint: | Schocken Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 15 November 1996 |
| Weight: | 329g |
| Dimensions: | 201mm x 128mm x 18mm |
| Series: | Library of Yiddish Classics |
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“This fresh translation is likely to serve as the indispensable Sholem Aleichem for some time to come.” —Cynthia Ozick“The editor and translator have done brilliantly.” —Saul Bellow“A body of work that is very much alive and that continues to dazzle us with its brilliance, wit, and humanity.” —Leonard Nimoy
About The Author
Sholem Aleichem
Hillel Halkin is an award-winning translator and a writer whose most recent work is Across the Sabbath River- In Search of a Lost Tribe of Israel.
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