Title: Shir ha-shirim
Subtitle: roman neʻurim be-arbaʻah peraḳim
First published: 1947
Description: A boy's tender love for the daughter of his brother, a girl his age. Shimek's shyness is so acute he can only communicate his heart by noting the ways of nature and quoting from the biblical "Song of Songs." First English translation of an illustrated 1910 novel evoking the lost world of Eastern European Jewry.
Subjects: Bible, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Yiddish literature, Translations into Russian