Some Laughter, Some Tears

by Sholom Aleichem

Book Overview

Mass Market Paperback: 254 pages Publisher: Perigee Trade (May 5, 1955) Language: English This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399503951
• ISBN13: 9780399503955
• Release Date: August 1979
• Publisher: TarcherPerigee
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.0" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

Samples of the work of the beloved master of Yiddish literature

Sholom Aleichem spoke as a writer for and to a whole culture, that of the poor religious Jews of Eastern Europe. He understood their yearnings and their troubles, and created a whole cast of characters who represented faithfully a part of the world of the Eastern European Shtetl. Aleichem also wrote of the Jewish immigrants to America, though here his writing had a slightly more bitter touch. This work contains a sample of his work,divided by the editor and translator Curt Leviant into the following categories: Holiday Tales, Romance, Jewish Children, Monologue, Railroad Yarns, Kasrilevke Characters, Satire, From America. This anthology provides an excellent sample of a writer who did move to laughter and tears so many of a world now gone.