Jewish Children (Yudishe Kinder)

By Aleichem, Sholem

Book Id: WPLBN0002954701
Format Type:
File Size: 218.99 MB
Reproduction Date: 2008

Title:	Jewish Children (Yudishe Kinder)
Author:	Aleichem, Sholem
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Short stories, Religion
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Jewish Children (Yudishe Kinder)
Historic Publication Date:	1922
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Aleichem, B. S., & Rabinovich, S. (1922). Jewish Children (Yudishe Kinder). Retrieved from http://www.self.gutenberg.org/

Description
Although written from a child's perspective, this is not a kids book but a series of funny, poignant, and sometimes disturbing stories about life in a late 19th-century Russian-Jewish village -- the world of my grandparents. Sholem Rabinovich (1859-1916) was born in Pereiaslav, Ukraine and later immigrated to New York. His short stories about Tevye and his daughters were freely adapted into the musical FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. Rabinovich's will contained the following injunction: Let my name be recalled with laughter or not at all. His translator, Hannah Berman, was Irish of Lithuanian descent. Some of these stories may be too intense for younger children. (summary by Adrian Praetzellis)

Summary
Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

Excerpt
Short stories, Religion, Historical Fiction