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Book Synopsis The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem by : Jeremy Dauber
Download or read book The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem written by Jeremy Dauber and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the Jewish Encounters series The first comprehensive biography of one of the most beloved authors of all time: the creator of Tevye the Dairyman, the collection of stories that inspired Fiddler on the Roof. Novelist, playwright, journalist, essayist, and editor, Sholem Aleichem was one of the founding giants of modern Yiddish literature. The creator of a pantheon of characters who have been immortalized in books and plays, he provided readers throughout the world with a fascinating window into the world of Eastern European Jews as they began to confront the forces of cultural, political, and religious modernity that tore through the Russian Empire in the final decades of the nineteenth century. But just as compelling as the fictional lives of Tevye, Golde, Menakhem-Mendl, and Motl was Sholem Aleichem’s own life story. Born Sholem Rabinovich in Ukraine in 1859, he endured an impoverished childhood, married into fabulous wealth, and then lost it all through bad luck and worse business sense. Turning to his pen to support himself, he switched from writing in Russian and Hebrew to Yiddish, in order to create a living body of literature for the Jewish masses. He enjoyed spectacular success as both a writer and a performer of his work throughout Europe and the United States, and his death in 1916 was front-page news around the world; a New York Times editorial mourned the loss of “the Jewish Mark Twain.” But his greatest fame lay ahead of him, as the English-speaking world began to discover his work in translation and to introduce his characters to an audience that would extend beyond his wildest dreams. In Jeremy Dauber’s magnificent biography, we encounter a Sholem Aleichem for the ages. (With 16 pages of black-and-white illustrations)
Book Synopsis Tevye the Dairyman and The Railroad Stories by : Sholem Aleichem
Download or read book Tevye the Dairyman and The Railroad Stories written by Sholem Aleichem and published by Schocken. This book was released on 2011-08-17 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Moshkeleh the Thief by : Sholem Aleichem
Download or read book Moshkeleh the Thief written by Sholem Aleichem and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-09 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Stempenyu: A Jewish Romance by : Sholom Aleichem
Download or read book Stempenyu: A Jewish Romance written by Sholom Aleichem and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2007-12-14 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even the most pious Jew need not shed so many tears over the destruction of Jerusalem as the women were in the habit of shedding when Stempenyu was playing. The first work of Sholom Aleichem’s to be translated into English—this long out-of-print translation is the only one ever done under Aleichem’s personal supervision—Stempenyu is a prime example of the author’ s hallmark traits: his antic and often sardonic sense of humor, his whip-smart dialogue, his workaday mysticism, and his historic documentation of shtetl life. Held recently by scholars to be the story that inspired Marc Chagall’s “Fiddler on the Roof” painting (which in turn inspired the play that was subsequently based on Aleichem’s Tevye stories, not this novella), Stempenyu is the hysterical story of a young village girl who falls for a wildly popular klezmer fiddler—a character based upon an actual Yiddish musician whose fame set off a kind of pop hysteria in the shtetl. Thus the story, in this contemporaneous “authorized” translation, is a wonderful introduction to Aleichem’s work as he wanted it read, not to mention to the unique palaver of a nineteenth-century Yiddish rock star.
Book Synopsis The Bloody Hoax by : Sholem Aleichem
Download or read book The Bloody Hoax written by Sholem Aleichem and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novel portraying Jewish life in a Russian city prior to WWI.
Book Synopsis Sholem Aleichem by : Sholem Aleichem
Download or read book Sholem Aleichem written by Sholem Aleichem and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sholem Aleichem (1859-1916) was a Yiddish novelist and playwright who wrote humorous tales about common Russian Jews who lived in small towns. His stories, especially “Tevye's Daughters,” formed the basis for the musical “Fiddler on the Roof.” This collection contains five humorous stories:The ClockFishel the TeacherAn Easy FastThe Passover GuestGymnasiye
Book Synopsis Jewish Children by : Sholem Aleichem
Download or read book Jewish Children written by Sholem Aleichem and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Best of Sholom Aleichem by : Sholem Aleichem
Download or read book The Best of Sholom Aleichem written by Sholem Aleichem and published by Jason Aronson Incorporated. This book was released on 1989 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Translating Sholem Aleichem by : GENNADY. ESTRAIKH
Download or read book Translating Sholem Aleichem written by GENNADY. ESTRAIKH and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sholem Aleichem, whose 150th anniversary was commemorated in March 2009, remains one of the most popular Yiddish authors. But few people today are able to read the original. Since the 1910s, however, Sholem Aleichem's works have been known to a wider international audience through, numerous translations, and through film and theatre adaptations, most famously Fiddler on the Root. This volume examines those translations published in Europe, with the aim of investigating how the specific European contexts might have shaped translations of Yiddish literature. The contributors are Gennady Estraikh, Alexander Frenkel, Roland Gruschka, Alexandra Hoffman, Kerstin Hoge, Sabine Koller, Mikhail Krutikov, Olga Litvak, Eugenia Prokop-Janiec, Gabriella Safran, Jan Schwarz, and Anna Verschik. Book jacket.
Download or read book Marienbad written by Sholem Aleichem and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Not a novel but an entanglement [farpluntenish] between two cities: Warsaw and Marienbad, told through 36 letters, 14 love notes and 46 telegrams."--Original title page. Sholom Aleichem, the Yiddish humorist, does a comedy of manners. Fascinating window on a particular time of the Jewish experience in Europe.
Book Synopsis Wandering Stars by : Sholem Aleichem
Download or read book Wandering Stars written by Sholem Aleichem and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An uproarious, sprawling masterpiece by a grand Yiddish storyteller.” —O, The Oprah Magazine Translated in full for the first time, one hundred years after its original publication, the acclaimed epic love story set in the colorful world of the Yiddish theater. Wandering Stars spans ten years and two continents, relating the adventures of Reizel and Leibel, young shtetl dwellers in late nineteenth-century Russia who fall under the spell of a traveling acting company. Together they run away from home to become entertainers themselves, and then tour separately around Europe, ultimately reuniting in New York. Wandering Stars is an engrossing romance, a great New York story, and an anthem for the magic of the theater.
Book Synopsis Adventures of Mottel, the Cantor's Son by : Shalom Aleichem
Download or read book Adventures of Mottel, the Cantor's Son written by Shalom Aleichem and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Why Do the Jews Need a Land of Their Own? by : Sholem Aleichem
Download or read book Why Do the Jews Need a Land of Their Own? written by Sholem Aleichem and published by Associated University Presses. This book was released on 1984 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Adventures of Menahem-Mendl by : Sholem Aleichem
Download or read book The Adventures of Menahem-Mendl written by Sholem Aleichem and published by Sholom Aleichem Family Publications. This book was released on 1969 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters between a husband and wife provide another magical glimpse into the world of Sholom Aleichem.
Book Synopsis Tevye's Daughters by : Sholem Aleichem
Download or read book Tevye's Daughters written by Sholem Aleichem and published by . This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tevye's Daughters is the book that was made into the blockbuster play and movie, "Fiddler on the Roof." This movie brought us such famous and universally recognizable songs as "If I were a Rich Man," "Matchmaker, Matchmaker Make me a Match," "Tradition" and "Sunrise, Sunset." Trvye the dairyman is one of the most delightful and amusing characters in all of fiction, and this chronicle of Tevye and his daughters is, beyond question, the great Jewish humorist's masterpiece. Tevye was baffled by his daughters. That he had seven daughters and no sons-well, that was God's will, and Tevye loved them all dearly. And the girls-ah, their world revolved around papa and they gave him all their devotion. But as they grew up, they saw that the world was big and changing, that there were other ideas and other people. What made it so difficult for Tevye was not that they were such fine and lovely girls - dark-eyed Beilke, laughing Sprintze, brave Hodel - but that they had minds and wills of their own. Tevye couldn't quite understand that - it wasn't supposed to be that way. His gay heart was heavy at times, and the girls mixed tears with their laughter. When you have read this book, you will know why many Jews refer to Sholom Aleichem not as "the great Jewish humorist," but rather as one of "the greatest writers of our time." There are short stories in this book too: "If I Were Rothschild," "The Littlest of Kings," and a dozen others that display Sholom Aleichem's wonderful storytelling gift at its best.
Book Synopsis Stempenyu: A Jewish Romance by : Sholom Aleichem
Download or read book Stempenyu: A Jewish Romance written by Sholom Aleichem and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even the most pious Jew need not shed so many tears over the destruction of Jerusalem as the women were in the habit of shedding when Stempenyu was playing. The first work of Sholom Aleichem’s to be translated into English—this long out-of-print translation is the only one ever done under Aleichem’s personal supervision—Stempenyu is a prime example of the author’ s hallmark traits: his antic and often sardonic sense of humor, his whip-smart dialogue, his workaday mysticism, and his historic documentation of shtetl life. Held recently by scholars to be the story that inspired Marc Chagall’s “Fiddler on the Roof” painting (which in turn inspired the play that was subsequently based on Aleichem’s Tevye stories, not this novella), Stempenyu is the hysterical story of a young village girl who falls for a wildly popular klezmer fiddler—a character based upon an actual Yiddish musician whose fame set off a kind of pop hysteria in the shtetl. Thus the story, in this contemporaneous “authorized” translation, is a wonderful introduction to Aleichem’s work as he wanted it read, not to mention to the unique palaver of a nineteenth-century Yiddish rock star.
Download or read book From the Fair written by Sholom Aleichem and published by Plunkett Lake Press. This book was released on 2019-08-16 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sholom Aleichem (1859-1916) began writing his autobiography when he was 49 and was still working on it when he died at age 57. He considered From the Fair his greatest achievement, a book that combined the story of his life and a cultural and spiritual history of his times. Sholom Aleichem called it “my book of books, the Song of Songs of my soul.” In 1908, a Russian newspaper in Kiev asked for an autobiographical sketch, and Sholom Aleichem decided to use a third-person narrative voice for what became a memoir. From the Fair was published in short installments, serialized for newspaper readers. It takes us from the author’s childhood in a Pale of Settlement shtetl to his first love and his early attempts at writing fiction and drama. “I, Sholom Aleichem the writer, will tell the true story of Sholom Aleichem the man,” he writes, “informally and without adornments and embellishments, as if an absolute stranger were talking, yet one who accompanied him everywhere, even to the seven divisions of hell.” The result is essential background for Sholom Aleichem’s works of fiction. Curt Leviant is a prizewinning novelist, author of The Yemenite Girl and Passion in the Desert. His short stories and novellas have been published in many magazines and have been included in Best American Short Stories, Prize Stories and other anthologies. He has won the Wallant Prize, an O. Henry Award, and is a Fellow in Literature of the National Endowment for the Arts. A frequent lecturer on Yiddish and Hebrew literature, he has also translated three other Sholom Aleichem collections.
