A Century in the Life of Sholem Aleichem's Tevye
Subtitle: The B. G. Rudolph Lectures in Judaic Studies
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: January 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 25
ISBN-13: 9780815627272
Subjects: General; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism
Description: Yiddish short fiction from Russia by a writer who embraced Communism, only to become disillusioned, which led to his imprisonment and death in a gulag. There are three stories, Remnants, on a woman seeking happiness, Impoverished, on a father and his daughters, and Departing, which looks at the effect of a suicide on the friends and family of the victim.