Nineteen To the Dozen: Monologues and Bits and Bobs of Other Things

by Sholem Aleichem, Ken Frieden (Editor), Ted Gorelick (Translator)

Overview

The author of classic Yiddish novels and short stories, Sholem Aleichem--best known for having inspired the popular play, Fiddler on the Roof, evokes the voices of Yiddish speakers in these monologues written between 1901 and 1916. In each piece, a man or a woman comes forward to tell the story. The implied listeners--a rabbi, a doctor, or the author himself--says virtually nothing. Aleichem pretends to have transcribed these private performances for the reader's benefit.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815606345
Publisher:	Syracuse University Press
Publication date:	04/01/2000
Series:	Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.48(d)

About the Author

Sholem Aleichem created the original Tevye the Dairyman of Broadway and Hollywood fame.

Ted Gorelick's translation of S. Y. Abramovitsh's classic Fishke the Lame won him critical acclaim.

Ken Frieden is B. G. Rudolph Professor of Judaic Studies at Syracuse University.

Editorial Reviews

During their lifetimes, Sholem Aleichem and Mark Twain were often compared; in Gorelick's colloquial translation, some of the earliest of these monologues . . . might easily have been written by Twain.

The New York Times Book Review

A collection of short stories by a master Yiddish writer whose work inspired . In 14 monologues written between 1901 and 1916, a man or a woman comes forward to tell a story, evoking the voices of Yiddish speakers of Eastern European Jewish society. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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