My Father, Sholom Aleichem

By Marie Waife-Goldberg

Book Overview

This memoir of Sholom Aleichem by his youngest daughter is at once the first complete biography of a great writer and a warm and charming evocation of family life in pre-Revolutionary Russia. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• ISBN: B01A5IK99I
• Release Date: January 1968
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 333 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A warm and affectionate memoir

This memoir by Marie Waife- Goldberg Shalom Aleichem's fifth child is an attempt to give the world a fuller picture of her beloved father. She writes in her preface that Sholom Aleichem had written his life - story to the age of twenty- one,and had always wanted the story completed. She thought her mother would do it but her mother was unable to. Another sister wrote vignettes but did not write the story. So with her husband's urging she wrote the story of a writer who went through many difficult times in his life but who became a legend throughout the Jewish world . Anyone who has an interest in Yiddish literature and in one of mankind's remarkable humorist storytellers should enjoy this work.