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

ALEICHEM, Sholom

Literature & Fiction

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

Mass Market Paperback: 254 pages Publisher: Perigee Trade (May 5, 1955) Language: English

Some Laughter, Some Tears

TarcherPerigee

Three families of Jews who share the same address in Kiev--a rich businessman, his Orthodox wife, and medical student daughter, an assimilated, anti-Zionist pharmacist and his son, and a poor shoemaker and his sons--become caught in the turmoil of the 1905 Russian revolution

In the Storm

Literary

Plume

One of the most beloved and prolific writers of Yiddish literature, Sholom Aleichem (1859–1916) produced a wealth of wonderful stories that combine traditional Jewish oral humor with Western literary tradition. For years a living legend, he wrote enduring gems of fiction, eleven of which are included in this entertaining collection. The master storyteller brilliantly recaptures the joy and tribulations of Jewish life in such tales as "Geese," "At the Doctor's," "Three Widows," "The Passover Eve Vagabonds," "On America," "Someone to Envy," "Three Calendars," "The Ruined Passover," the title story, and two others. Introduced and ably translated by Curt Leviant, these tales sparkle with wit, wisdom, and a warm humanity that will appeal to a wide audience of readers, especially those with an interest in Jewish cultural life.

Happy New Year! and Other Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)

United States

Dover Publications

Twenty selections include humorous, touching tales about life in the shtetl that abound in accurate, affectionate characterizations and richly atmospheric details. Lovingly translated from the Yiddish with all the warmth and spirit of the originals, the stories include, among others, "Progress in Kasrilevke," "Summer Romances," "Birth," "There's No Dead," "Someone to Envy," "Three Widows," "Homesick," "On America," "A Home Away from Home," "To the Hot Springs," the title story, and "Agents," a one-act play.

My First Love Affair and Other Stories

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Seven childrens' tales, from one of the world's greatest writers of Yiddish stories. Centering around the Jewish holidays, stories include "Benny's Luck," about the amazing good fortune of a young boy and his dreydl, and "Really a Sukkah!" a glimpse of a busy holiday celebration that ends less happily than it began.

Holiday Tales (Jewish, Judaism)

Children's Books

THE STORY: A number of the most famous Tevya stories have been adapted by Mr. Perl into a highly amusing, warm-hearted play. First, the scene in which Tevya, a poor drayman, happens to do a favor to a rich family. In gratitude they give him money a

Tevya and His Daughters (A Play)

Perl, Arnold

Arnold Perl (based on the stories of Sholom Aleichem)

Dramas & Plays

Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Product Description 
This first English translation of Sholom Aleichem’s rediscovered novel, 
Moshkeleh the Thief, has a riveting plot, an unusual love story, and a keenly observed portrayal of an underclass Jew replete with characters never before been seen in Yiddish literature.\nThe eponymous hero, Moshkeleh, is a robust chap and horse thief. When Tsireleh, daughter of a tavern keeper, flees to a monastery with the man she loves—a non-Jew she met at the tavern—the humiliated tavern keeper’s family turns to Moshkeleh for help, not knowing he too is in love with her.\nFor some unknown reason, this innovative novel does not appear in the standard twenty-eight-volume edition of Sholom Aleichem’s collected works, published after his death. Strikingly, 
Moshkeleh the Thief shows Jews interacting with non-Jews in the Russian Pale of Settlement—a groundbreaking theme in modern Yiddish literature. This novel is also important for Sholom Aleichem’s approach to his material. Yiddish literature had long maintained a tradition of 
edelkeyt, refinement. Authors eschewed violence, the darker side of life, and people on the fringe of respectability. Moshkeleh thus enters a Jewish arena not hitherto explored in a novel. 
 Review \n“This almost-forgotten novel by one of the greatest Jewish writers of all time is revelatory, vividly depicting an all-too-rarely-seen side of Yiddish literature and Jewish life; its rendering here, by one of Jewish literature’s greatest translators, provides a crackling energy befitting its material. Don’t start it too late in the evening; you won’t be able to put it down.”—Jeremy Dauber, Columbia University professor and author of 
The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem\n“This rediscovered short novel by Sholom Aleichem is a gem—a vivid representation of the underside of Jewish life in Eastern Europe, funny, touching, and biting. Curt Leviant has done a remarkable job with the English translation, aptly catching the pungent colloquial character of the Yiddish.”—Robert Alter, emeritus professor of Hebrew and comparative literature, University of California, Berkeley, and author of 
The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary\n“Moshkele Ganev flies in the face of so much of what we think of when we imagine Eastern European Jewish life. Here, Sholom Aleichem brings us the broadest of visions of that world, not merely by dramatizing the shady characters on society’s margins, but also by inviting us into their emotional lives and uncovering the complicated power structures that can turn them into heroes. For any reader who cares about the Jewish past, this never-before-translated gem will be a revelation—and a delight.”—Dara Horn, author of 
Eternal Life: A Novel\n“More than a century after his death, Sholom Aleichem has a new (or rather a newly rediscovered) book out, and it was worth the wait. Thanks to Curt Leviant for rescuing this unusual love story from obscurity, translating it so beautifully, and, at long last, giving it the readership it deserves.”—Aaron Lansky, author of 
Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books\nAbout the Author 
Sholom Aleichem, the pen name of Sholom Rabinowitz (1859–1916), became the most widely read writer in the history of Yiddish literature by the end of the nineteenth century. His stories about Tevye the dairyman became the basis for the hit musical, 
 Fiddler on the Roof. 
Curt Leviant is the prize-winning author or translator of more than twenty-five books. His latest novel is 
Me, Mo, Mu, Ma & Mod; or, Which Will It Be, Me and Mazal, or Gila and Me?

Moshkeleh the Thief: A Rediscovered Novel

The Jewish Publication Society

Even the most pious Jew need not shed so many tears over the destruction of Jerusalem as the women were in the habit of shedding when Stempenyu was playing. The first work of Sholom Aleichem’s to be translated into English—this long out-of-print translation is the only one ever done under Aleichem’s personal supervision—Stempenyu is a prime example of the author’ s hallmark traits: his antic and often sardonic sense of humor, his whip-smart dialogue, his workaday mysticism, and his historic documentation of shtetl life. Held recently by scholars to be the story that inspired Marc Chagall’s “Fiddler on the Roof” painting (which in turn inspired the play that was subsequently based on Aleichem’s Tevye stories, not this novella), Stempenyu is the hysterical story of a young village girl who falls for a wildly popular klezmer fiddler—a character based upon an actual Yiddish musician whose fame set off a kind of pop hysteria in the shtetl. Thus the story, in this contemporaneous “authorized” translation, is a wonderful introduction to Aleichem’s work as he wanted it read, not to mention to the unique palaver of a nineteenth-century Yiddish rock star.

Stempenyu: A Jewish Romance (The Art of the Novella)

Humor & Satire

Melville House

This rich medley of stories, poems, and other writings features evocations of Chanukah by classic and contemporary authors includingSholom Aleichem, Nobel laureates S. Y. Agnon and Elie Wiesel, I. L.Peretz, Emma Lazarus, Theodor Herzl, Chaim Potok, Mark Strand, A. B. Yehoshua,Emma Green, Joanna Rakoff, and Rebecca Newberger Goldstein. There are humorous as well as meditative tales from&nbsp;Israel, Central Europe, and the United States--works that capture the Festival of Lights as observed on Manhattan's Upper West Side alongside accounts of celebrations in shtetls of the Old Country and far reaches of the Diaspora including Africa. You'll find an abundance of sizzling latkes, spinning dreidels, blazing candelabras, and glittering gelt, together with intriguing commentary about the origins of the holiday and what it means now.

One for Each Night: The Greatest Chanukah Stories of All Time (A Very Christmas)

Green, Emma

Potok, Chaïm

Yehoshua, A.B.

Agnon, S. Y.

Peretz, I. L.

STRAND, Mark

Herzl, Theodor

Lazarus, Emma

Rakoff, Joanna

Wiesel, Élie

GOLDSTEIN Rebecca Newberger

New Vessel Press

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