ISBN:
0805210695
,
9780805210699
Language:
English
Pages:
XLI, 309 S.
,
21 cm
Year of publication:
2008
Series Statement:
Library of Yiddish classics
Uniform Title:
'Ṭeṿye der milkhiker' and 'Ayznban geshikhtes: Ksovim fun a komivoyazher' 〈engl.〉
DDC:
892.49
Keywords:
Short stories, Yiddish Translations into English
;
Jews Fiction
;
Russia
;
Ṭeṿye (Fictitious character : Sholem Aleichem) Fiction
;
Jews Fiction
;
Social life and customs
;
Jewish fiction
;
Short stories
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
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
Note:
English translation originally published in hardback by Schocken Books, 1987
