The first complete translation of the great Yiddish writer's autobiography includes newly discovered chapters that round out Aleichem's third-person narrative of his life, career, and times and of people and places along the way

From the Fair: The Autobiography of Sholom Aleichem

Biographies & Memoirs

Aleichem, Sholem

Memoirs

Penguin

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.

Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor's Son (Penguin Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Penguin Classics

“An uproarious, sprawling masterpiece by a grand Yiddish storyteller.” —O, The Oprah Magazine
 Translated in full for the first time, one hundred years after its original publication, the acclaimed epic love story set in the colorful world of the Yiddish theater. Wandering Stars spans ten years and two continents, relating the adventures of Reizel and Leibel, young shtetl dwellers in late nineteenth-century Russia who fall under the spell of a traveling acting company. Together they run away from home to become entertainers themselves, and then tour separately around Europe, ultimately reuniting in New York. Wandering Stars is an engrossing romance, a great New York story, and an anthem for the magic of the theater.

Wandering Stars: A Novel

Penguin Publishing Group

This volume presents a new translation of two favorite comic novels by the preeminent Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem (1859-1916). The Letters of Menakhem-Mendl and Sheyne-Sheyndl portrays a tumultuous marriage through letters exchanged between the title character, an itinerant bumbler seeking his fortune in the cities of Russia before departing alone for the New World, and his scolding wife, who becomes increasingly fearful, jealous, and mystified. Motl, the Cantor's Son is the first-person narrative of a mischievous and keenly observant boy who emigrates with his family from Russia to America. The final third of the story takes place in New York, making this Sholem Aleichem's only major work to be set in the United States. Sholem Aleichem endows each character with an individual comic voice to tell in his own way the story of the collapse of traditional Jewish life in modern industrial society as well as the journey to America, where a new chapter of Jewish history begins. This volume includes a biographical and critical introduction as well as a useful glossary for English-language readers.

The Letters of Menakhem-Mendl, Sheyne-Sheyndl and Motl. the Cantor's Son

Religion & Spirituality

Judaism

Yale University Press

This volume presents an outstanding new translation of two favorite comic novels by the preeminent Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem (1859–1916). The Letters of Menakhem-Mendl and Sheyne-Sheyndl portrays a tumultuous marriage through letters exchanged between the title character, an itinerant bumbler seeking his fortune in the cities of Russia before departing alone for the New World, and his scolding wife, who becomes increasingly fearful, jealous, and mystified. Motl, Peysi the Cantor’s Son isthe first-person narrative of a mischievous and keenly observant boy who emigrates with his family from Russia to America. The final third of the story takes place in New York, making this Sholem Aleichem’s only major work to be set in the United States. Motl and Menakhem-Mendl are in one sense opposites--the one a clear-eyed child and the other a pathetically deluded adult. Yet both are ideal conveyors of the comic disparity of perception on which humor depends. If Motl sees more than do others around him, Menakhem-Mendl has an almost infinite capacity for seeing less. Sholem Aleichem endows each character with an individual comic voice to tell in his own way the story of the collapse of traditional Jewish life in modern industrial society as well as the journey to America, where a new chapter of Jewish history begins. This volume includes a biographical and critical introduction as well as a useful glossary for English-language readers.

The Letters of Menakhem-Mendl and Sheyne-Sheyndl and Motl, the Cantor's Son (New Yiddish Library Series)

History & Criticism

Marienbad

The first English translation of Aleichem's 1911 novel, which reveals the thwarted loves and misunderstandings of a closely knit group of friends and relatives through thirty-six letters, fourteen love notes, and forty-six telegrams

Perigee Trade

The Nightingale

Literary

Plume

Short stories by the distinguished Yiddish author evoke the culture, life styles, and customs of the Jews of Russia

Favorite Tales of Sholom Aleichem

Random House Value Publishing

The first complete translation of an epic love story by the creator of Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof Next year marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of the great Yiddish humorist Sholem Aleichem as well as the 100th anniversary of the publication of Wandering Stars, his sprawling love story spanning ten years and two continents, and set in the colorful world of the Yiddish theater. In a Russian shtetl at the end of the nineteenth century, Reisel, daughter of a poor cantor, and Leibel, son of a rich man, fall under the spell of a traveling Yiddish acting company. Together they run off to join the theater but quickly become separated. Reisel goes on to become Rosa Spivak, concert star, and Leibel becomes Leo Rafalesko, theatrical sensation. Kept apart by their own successes and by the managers who exploit their talent, they tour the world until their wanderings bring them both to New York. An engrossing romance, a great New York story, and an anthem for the theater, Wandering Stars is a long-lost literary classic, rediscovered here in a vibrant new translation.

Wandering Stars

Contemporary

Viking Adult

The first complete translation of the great Yiddish writer's autobiography includes newly discovered chapters that round out Aleichem's third-person narrative of his life, career, and times and of people and places along the way

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From the Fair: The Autobiography of Sholom Aleichem

Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor's Son (Penguin Classics)

Wandering Stars: A Novel

The Letters of Menakhem-Mendl, Sheyne-Sheyndl and Motl. the Cantor's Son

The Letters of Menakhem-Mendl and Sheyne-Sheyndl and Motl, the Cantor's Son (New Yiddish Library Series)

Marienbad

The Nightingale

Favorite Tales of Sholom Aleichem

Wandering Stars

From the Fair: The Autobiography of Sholom Aleichem