Tevye The Dairyman And Other Stories

Author : Sholem Aleichem
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307795243

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Tevye the Dairyman and The Railroad Stories by Sholem Aleichem Pdf

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.

Author : Sholem Aleichem
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105034110440

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Tevye the Dairyman and Other Stories by Sholem Aleichem Pdf

Author : Sholem Aleichem
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1994-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0714730076

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Tevye the Dairyman and Other Stories by Sholem Aleichem Pdf

Author : Sholem Aleichem
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 4871872262

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Tevye's Daughters by Sholem Aleichem Pdf

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.

Author : Sholem Aleichem
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780827618763

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Moshkeleh the Thief by Sholem Aleichem Pdf

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.

Author : Alexandra Silber
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781681774879

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After Anatevka: A Novel Inspired by "Fiddler on the Roof" by Alexandra Silber Pdf

A sweeping historical novel in the grand tradition of Russian literature that imagines what happens to the characters of Fiddler on the Roof after the curtain falls. The world knows well the tale of Tevye, the beloved Jewish dairyman from the shtetl Anatevka of Tsarist Russia. In stories originally written by Sholem Aleichem and then made world-famous in the celebrated musical Fiddler on the Roof, Tevye, his wife Golde, and their five daughters dealt with the outside influences that were encroaching upon their humble lives. But what happened to those remarkable characters after the curtain fell? In After Anatevka, Alexandra Silber picks up where Fiddler left off. Second-eldest daughter Hodel takes center stage as she attempts to join her Socialist-leaning fiancé Perchik to the outer reaches of a Siberian work camp. But before Hodel and Perchik can finally be together, they both face extraordinary hurdles and adversaries—both personal and political—attempting to keep them apart at all costs. A love story set against a backdrop of some of the greatest violence in European history, After Anatevaka is a stunning conclusion to a tale that has gripped audiences around the globe for decades.

Author : Sholem Aleichem
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101022146

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Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor's Son by Sholem Aleichem Pdf

For the 150th anniversary of the birth of the "Jewish Mark Twain,"a new translation of his most famous works Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor's Son are the most celebrated characters in all of Jewish fiction. Tevye is the lovable, Bible-quoting father of seven daughters, a modern Job whose wisdom, humor, and resilience inspired the lead character in Fiddler on the Roof. And Motl is the spirited and mischievous nine-year-old boy who accompanies his family on a journey from their Russian shtetl to New York, and whose comical, poignant, and clear-eyed observations capture with remarkable insight the struggles and hopes and triumphs of Jewish immigrants to America at the turn of the twentieth century. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : Shalom Aleichem
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:902303106

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Adventures of Mottel, the Cantor's Son by Shalom Aleichem Pdf

Author : Sholem Aleichem
Publisher : Clipper Audio
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1471234649

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Tevye the Milkman by Sholem Aleichem Pdf

Tevye the Milkman, a uniquely charming Jewish novel from Tsarist rural Russia, provided the principal character for Fiddler on the Roof. Here we have the full story, with all its Jewish humour, wisdom and despair. The central character, Tevye the Milkman, goes around the community in the Russian countryside delivering milk and cheese, but also dispensing wisdom from the Talmud laced with his commonsense view of life. Funny, enriching but also moving, this remarkable little Jewish classic will charm all who hear it, especially in the reading by veteran audiobook performer Neville Jason.

Author : Alisa Solomon
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780805095296

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Wonder of Wonders by Alisa Solomon Pdf

A sparkling and eye-opening history of the Broadway musical that changed the world In the half-century since its premiere, Fiddler on the Roof has had an astonishing global impact. Beloved by audiences the world over, performed from rural high schools to grand state theaters, Fiddler is a supremely potent cultural landmark. In a history as captivating as its subject, award-winning drama critic Alisa Solomon traces how and why the story of Tevye the milkman, the creation of the great Yiddish writer Sholem-Aleichem, was reborn as blockbuster entertainment and a cultural touchstone, not only for Jews and not only in America. It is a story of the theater, following Tevye from his humble appearance on the New York Yiddish stage, through his adoption by leftist dramatists as a symbol of oppression, to his Broadway debut in one of the last big book musicals, and his ultimate destination—a major Hollywood picture. Solomon reveals how the show spoke to the deepest conflicts and desires of its time: the fraying of tradition, generational tension, the loss of roots. Audiences everywhere found in Fiddler immediate resonance and a usable past, whether in Warsaw, where it unlocked the taboo subject of Jewish history, or in Tokyo, where the producer asked how Americans could understand a story that is "so Japanese." Rich, entertaining, and original, Wonder of Wonders reveals the surprising and enduring legacy of a show about tradition that itself became a tradition. Wonder of wonders, miracle of miracles.

Author : Jeremy Dauber
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780805242782

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The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem by Jeremy Dauber Pdf

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)

Author : Sholem Aleichem
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0670020524

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Wandering Stars by Sholem Aleichem Pdf

Finds Reisel, the daughter of a poor cantor, and Liebel, a rich man's son, falling under the spell of a traveling Yiddish acting company and separated by managers who would exploit their talents.

Author : Sholem Aleichem
Publisher : Jason Aronson Incorporated
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Jewish fiction
ISBN : 0876689888

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The Best of Sholom Aleichem by Sholem Aleichem Pdf

Author : Mitchell Geoffrey Bard
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Families
ISBN : 1481907131

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After Anatevka by Mitchell Geoffrey Bard Pdf

"After Anatevka follows Sholom Aleichem's timeless character, Tevye the milkman, as he moves his family from Russia to a kibbutz in Palestine. Tevye, the wisecracking, Bible-quoting man of God, tells the story against the backdrop of the conflict between Jews and Arabs in the Holy Land prior to the establishment of the State of Israel"--Back cover.

Author : Ken Frieden
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438403335

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Classic Yiddish Fiction by Ken Frieden Pdf

Yiddish literature, despite its remarkable achievements during an era bounded by Russian reforms in the 1860s and the First World War, has never before been surveyed by a scholarly monograph in English. Classic Yiddish Fiction provides an overview and interprets the Yiddish fiction of S. Y. Abramovitsh, Sholem Aleichem, and I. L. Peretz. While analyzing their works, Frieden situates these three authors in their literary world and in relation to their cultural contexts. Two or three generations ago, Yiddish was the primary language of Jews in Europe and America. Today, following the Nazi genocide and half a century of vigorous assimilation, Yiddish is sinking into oblivion. By providing a bridge to the lost continent of Yiddish literature, Frieden returns to those European traditions. This journey back to Ashkenazic origins also encompasses broader horizons, since the development of Yiddish culture in Europe and America parallels the history of other ethnic traditions.