A translation of two comic novels by the Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem (1859-1916). "The Letters of Menakhem-Mendl and Sheyne-Sheyndl" portrays a tumultuous marriage through letters exchanged between the title character, an itinerant bumbler seeking his fortune in the cities of Russia before departing alone for the New World, and his scolding ...
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 ...
Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the publication of "Wandering Stars"--Aleichem's sprawling love story set in the colorful world of the Yiddish theater--this literary classic is presented in a vibrant new translation.
THE BLOODY HOAX is the last of Sholom Aleichem's longer novels. Written in 1912, it is a forcefully characterized story about identity, friendship, and the anguish of being a Jew in Russia at that time.
Sholem Aleichem's poignant tale of a boy and girl raised as brother and sister, and the love that inevitably grows between them. With illustrations that evoke the four seasons, and the lost world of the Eastern European Jews.
Concise, highly readable book discusses: selecting, setting up and maintaining a telescope; amateur studies of the sun; lunar topography and occultations; observations of Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, the minor planets and the stars; an introduction to photoelectric photometry; more. 1981 edition. 124 figures. 26 halftones. 37 tables.
Comic monologues, one of Aleichem's favorite literary genres, written between 1901 and 1916. In this form, a person presumably engaged in a dialogue gets carried away and begins to harangue his or her listener--rabbi, doctor, or the author himself--with often hilarious results.
One of Aleichem's richest characterizations, Menahem-Mendl is an incurable optimist, whose every venture ends in disaster yet who never ceases to build castles in the air.
Features 11 stories by a master storyteller: "Geese," "At the Doctor's," "Three Widows," "The Passover Eve Vagabonds," "On America," "The Ruined Passover," the title story, and 4 others.
Tevye is the compassionate, lovable, Bible-quoting dairyman from Anatevka, and "Tevye the Dairyman" is a heartwarming and poignant account of life in turn-of-the-century Russia. Through the workaday world of a rural dairyman, his grit, wit, and heart, his daughters' courtships and marriages, and the eventual menace of the pogroms, Sholem Aleichem ...
One of the world's greatest writers of Yiddish stories known for their humor and pathos, Sholom Aleichem wrote many tales for children, seven of which appear in this collection. Centering around the holidays, the high points of the Jewish year, they include "Benny's Luck," which tells of the amazing good fortune of a young boy and his dreydl. " ...
"Mottel may have been a young demon to manage, but he is a pleasure to read about. Nothing daunts him. His spirit soars above the cruelties, the world has not grown any gentler since this book was written. Sholom Aleichem's wit and humanity enrich any age and any language."--"New York Times."
A creator of stories and satires, novels and plays, monologues and children's tales, fantasies and sketches, Sholom Aleichem endeared himself to the public with his shrewd, loving, and accurate portrayals of the speech, manners, and foibles of the Eastern European Jew.
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Burnham's Celestial Handbook: An Observer's Guide to the Universe Beyond the Solar System
