num_pages: 320
description: Of all the characters in modern Jewish fiction, the most beloved is Tevye, the compassionate, irrepressible, Bible-quoting dairyman from Anatevka, who has been immortalized in the writings of Sholem Aleichem and in acclaimed and award-winning theatrical and film adaptations. And no Yiddish writer was more beloved than Tevye’s creator, Sholem Rabinovich (1859–1916), the “Jewish Mark Twain,” who wrote under the pen name of Sholem Aleichem. Beautifully translated by Hillel Halkin, here is Sholem Aleichem’s heartwarming and poignant account of Tevye and his daughters, together with the “Railroad Stories,” twenty-one tales that examine human nature and modernity as they are perceived by men and women riding the trains from shtetl to shtetl.
language: English
title: Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories
titlecomplete: Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories (Library of Yiddish Classics)
characters: Tevye, Golde, Shprintze, Chava, Motel Kamzoil, Perchik, Hodel, Tzeitel
genres: Jewish, Short Stories, Religion, Historical Fiction, Judaism, Literature, Classics, Judaica, Fiction, Humor
ratings_count: 1370
series: Library of Yiddish Classics
publisher: Schocken