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Tevye the dairyman and the railroad stories / Sholom Aleichem; translated from the Yiddish and with an introduction by Hillel Halkin

Sholem Aleykhem, 1859-1916

Halḳin, Hillel, 1939- [Vorr.]

New York : Schocken Books, [ca. 2008] c 2004 [Original: 1987]

XLI, 309 S. ; 21 cm

Englisch (Sprache des Originals: Jiddisch)

English translation originally published in hardback by Schocken Books, 1987

0-8052-1069-5 ; 978-0-8052-1069-9

OCoLC: 232125462 (aus SWB)     

PJ5129.R2

892.49     Ähnliche Literatur

LOC-SH: Short stories, Yiddish -- Translations into English ; Jews -- Fiction -- Russia ; Ṭeṿye (Fictitious character : Sholem Aleichem) -- Fiction ; Jewish fiction ; Jews -- Fiction -- Social life and customs ; Short stories

Tevye the dairyman: Tevye strikes it rich -- Tevyes blow a small fortune -- Today's children -- Hodl -- Chava -- Shprintze -- Tevye leaves for the land of Israel -- Lekh-Lekho

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The railroad stories: To the reader -- Competitors -- The happiest man in all Kodny -- Baranovich Station -- Eighteen from Pereshchepena -- The man from Buenos Aires -- Elul -- The Slowpoke Express -- The miracle of Hoshana Rabbah -- The wedding that came without its band -- The Tallis Koton -- A game of sixty-six -- High school -- The automatic exemption -- It doesn't pay to be good -- Burned out -- Hard luck -- Fated for misfortune -- Go climb a tree if you don't like it -- The tenth man -- Third class