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Title: Tevye the Dairyman and The Railroad Stories by SHOLEM ALEICHEM ISBN: 0-8052-1069-5 Publisher: Schocken Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Master of Internal Monologue
Comment: Sholem Aleichem wrote his stories as a modern Mitnagdic Jew about the "old country" twenty to thirty years after the supposed time setting. Aleichem who had never lived the kind of life that Tevye did, far from it at that, used life stories of people as his inspiration. Although I have a personal predeliction for the musical "Fiddler on the Roof", the stories of Tevye the Dairy Man are among the greatest of all Yiddish literature and the musical just does not do it justice. Issues ranging from the changing times in the larger realm of Russia in the late 19th century to Tevye's own personal faith in God are raised in this masterful collection. One must realize that these stories were written years apart and Aleichem's socio/political views are reflected changingly as they were written. The writer was a master of internal monologue where he has Tevye talking the entire time, yet often you forget and feel as if it is another character. The constant usage of Yiddish, Biblical and liturgical phrases might confuse the first time reader, but this edition contains a very helpful notes section in the back of the book. As part of one's own personal education or for provacative literature for enjoyment, this is one that deserves the attention it receives. I highly recomend it.
Rating: 5
Summary: An Excellent Book for Jew and Gentile Alike
Comment: This excellent collection of Sholem Aleichem's stories proves that despite the differences between the modern world and Tevye's, human nature doesn't change. All of Tevye's best qualities--his love of knowledge and for his rebellious daughters--are portrayed with his worst--his stubborness. This is a book that can be read again and again even if one has no knowledge of the meaning of Tevye's Yiddish proverbs.
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Title: Tevyes Daughters: Collected Stories of Sholom Aleichem by Sholem Aleichem, Frances Butwin ISBN: 1929068034 Publisher: Sholom Aleichem Family Publications Pub. Date: November, 1999 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Happy New Year! and Other Stories by Sholom Aleichem, Curt Leviant ISBN: 0486414191 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 05 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
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Title: The Modern Jewish Canon : A Journey Through Language and Culture by Ruth R. Wisse ISBN: 0684830752 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 25 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: The I. L. Peretz Reader by Ruth R. Wisse, Isaac Leib Peretz ISBN: 0300092458 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel by Nathalie Babel, Peter Constantine, Cynthia Ozick, Isaac Babel, I. Babel' ISBN: 0393324028 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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