Sholom Aleichem


 

:This article is about the writer. For the Yiddish greeting, see Shalom Aleichem

Works

English-language collections

  • The Best of Sholom Aleichem, translated by I. Wisse, R. Howe (originally published 1979), Walker and Co., 1991, ISBN 0802726453.
  • Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories, translated by H. Halkin (originally published 1987), Schocken Books, 1996, ISBN 0805210695.
  • Nineteen to the Dozen: Monologues and Bits and Bobs of Other Things, translated by Ted Gorelick, Syracuse Univ Press, 1998, ISBN 0815604777.
  • A Treasury of Sholom Aleichem Children?s Stories, translated by Aliza Shevrin, Jason Aronson, 1996, ISBN 1568219261.
  • Inside Kasrilovka, Three Stories, translated by I. Goldstick, Schocken Books, 1948 (variously reprinted)
  • The Old Country, translated by Julius & Frances Butwin, J B H of Peconic, 1999, ISBN 1929068212.
  • Stories and Satires, translated by Curt Leviant, Sholom Aleichem Family Publications, 1999, ISBN 1929068204.

Autobiography

  • Funm Yarid, written 1914-1916, translated as The Great Fair by Tamara Kahana, Noonday Press, 1955; translated by Curt Leviant as From the Fair, Viking, 1986, ISBN 014008830X.

Novels

  • Stempenyu, originally published in his Folksbibliotek, adapted 1905 for the play Jewish Daughters.
  • Yossele Solovey (1889, published in his Folksbibliotek)
  • Tevye's Daughters, translated by F. Butwin (originally published 1949), Crown, 1959, ISBN 0517507102.

Young adult literature

  • Menahem-Mendl, translated as The Adventures of Menahem-Mendl, translated by Tamara Kahana, Sholom Aleichem Family Publications, 1969, ISBN 1929068026.
  • Motl peysi dem khazns, translated as The Adventures of Mottel, the Cantor's Son (young adult literature), translated by Tamara Kahana, Sholom Aleichem Family Publications, 1999, ISBN 192906800X.
  • The Bewitched Tailor, Sholom Aleichem Family Publications, 1999, ISBN 1929068190.

Plays

  • The Doctor (1887), one-act comedy
  • Der Get (The Divorce, 1888), one-act comedy
  • Die Asifa (The Assembly, 1889), one-act comedy
  • Yaknez (1894), a satire on brokers and speculators
  • Tsezeht Un Tseshpreht (Scattered Far and Wide, 1903), comedy
  • Agenten (Agents, 1905), one-act comedy
  • Yiedishe Tekhter (Jewish Daughters, 1905) drama, adaptation of his early novel Stempenyu
  • Die Goldgreber (The Golddiggers, 1907), comedy
  • Shver Tsu Zein a Yied (Hard to be a Jew, 1914)
  • Dos Groisse Gevins (The Big Lottery / The Jackpot, 1916)
  • Tevye der Milkhiger, (Tevye the Milkman, 1917, performed posthumously)

Essays

  • Oyf vos badarfn Yidn a land (Why Do the Jews Need a Land of Their Own?), translated by Joseph Leftwich and Mordecai S. Chertoff, Cornwall Books, 1984, ISBN 0845347748

Miscellany

  • Jewish Children, translated by Hannah Berman, William Morrow & Co, 1987, ISBN 0688841201.
  • numerous stories in Russian, published in Voshkod (1891-1892)

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Introduction
A short passage to illustrate Sholom Aleichem's style
Quotes
Works
References
External links

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