Tevye the Dairyman and The Railroad Stories

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A superb introduction to the caustic wit and keen observations of one of the worlds greatest storytellers. Included are 'Tevye the Diaryman' his masterpiece and the basis for Fiddler on the Roof and all twenty-one Railroad Stories, in which human nature and the various shocks of modernity are perceived by men and women riding the trains from shtetl to shtetl.

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This fresh translation is likely to serve as the indispensable Sholem Aleichem for some time to come. Cynthia Ozick

The editor and translator have done brilliantly. Saul Bellow

A body of work that is very much alive and that continues to dazzle us with its brilliance, wit, and humanity. Leonard Nimoy

Author Bio

Hillel Halkin is an award-winning translator and a writer whose most recent work is Across the Sabbath River- In Search of a Lost Tribe of Israel.