Tevye the Dairyman and The Railroad Stories

Sholem Aleichem, Halkin Halkin

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Yiddish

Schocken Books
01 October 1996

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Short stories

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.

By: Sholem Aleichem
Translated by: Halkin Halkin
Imprint: Schocken Books
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 201mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 329g
ISBN: 9780805210699
ISBN 10: 0805210695
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 01 October 1996
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for Tevye the Dairyman and The Railroad Stories

“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