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The letters of Menakhem-Mendl and Sheyne-Sheyndl : and, Motl, the cantor's son
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ISBN: 1281721905 9786611721909 0300128630 9780300128635 9781480440838 1480440833 0300092466 9780300092462 Year: 2002 Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press,

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This volume presents an outstanding new translation of two favorite comic novels by the preeminent Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem (1859-1916). The Letters of Menakhem-Mendl and Sheyne-Sheyndl portrays a tumultuous marriage through letters exchanged between the title character, an itinerant bumbler seeking his fortune in the cities of Russia before departing alone for the New World, and his scolding wife, who becomes increasingly fearful, jealous, and mystified. Motl, Peysi the Cantor's Son is the first-person narrative of a mischievous and keenly observant boy who emigrates with his family from Russia to America. The final third of the story takes place in New York, making this Sholem Aleichem's only major work to be set in the United States. Motl and Menakhem-Mendl are in one sense opposites--the one a clear-eyed child and the other a pathetically deluded adult. Yet both are ideal conveyors of the comic disparity of perception on which humor depends. If Motl sees more than do others around him, Menakhem-Mendl has an almost infinite capacity for seeing less. Sholem Aleichem endows each character with an individual comic voice to tell in his own way the story of the collapse of traditional Jewish life in modern industrial society as well as the journey to America, where a new chapter of Jewish history begins. This volume includes a biographical and critical introduction as well as a useful glossary for English-language readers.

Classic Yiddish fiction
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ISBN: 143840333X 0585046026 9780585046020 9780791426012 0791426017 9780791426029 0791426025 0791426017 0791426025 9781438403335 9781438403335 Year: 1995 Publisher: Albany, NY State University of New York Press

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Yiddish literature, despite its remarkable achievements during an era bounded by Russian reforms in the 1860s and the First World War, has never before been surveyed by a scholarly monograph in English. Classic Yiddish Fiction provides an overview and interprets the Yiddish fiction of S.Y. Abramovitsh, Sholem Aleichem, and I.L. Peretz. While analyzing their works, Frieden situates these three authors in their literary world and in relation to their cultural contexts. Two or three generations ago, Yiddish was the primary language of Jews in Europe and America. Today, following the Nazi genocide and half a century of vigorous assimilation, Yiddish is sinking into oblivion. By providing a bridge to the lost continent of Yiddish literature, Frieden returns to those European traditions. This journey back to Ashkenazic origins also encompasses broader horizons, since the development of Yiddish culture in Europe and America parallels the history of other ethnic traditions.

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Satire, Yiddish --- Social problems in literature. --- Yiddish satire --- Yiddish wit and humor --- History and criticism. --- Peretz, Isaac Leib, --- Sholem Aleichem, --- Mendele Mokher Sefarim, --- Cholem Aleichem, --- Rabinovič, Šālōm, --- Rabinovitsh, Sholem, --- Rabinovitz, Shalom, --- Rabinowitch, Solomon, --- Scholem Alechem, --- Scholem Aleijem, --- Scholem-Alejchem, --- Shalom Alekem, --- Sholem-Aleykhem, --- Sholom Aleichem, --- Sholom-Aleĭkhem, --- Szołem Ałejchem, --- Rabinowitz, Shalom, --- Aleichem, Sholem, --- Sholom Aleykhem, --- Rabinowitz, Sholem Yakov, --- Shalom Aleichem, --- Shalom Aleykhem, --- Shalom-ʻAlekhem, --- ʻAlekhem, Shalom-, --- Sholem Aleikhem, --- Rabinovits, Shalom, --- Scholem Alei'hem, --- Rabinovitch, Solomon, --- Rabinowitz, Solomon, --- Sholem Aleijem, --- Shalom Aleychem, --- Sholem Aleychem, --- Шолом-Алейхем, --- Șalom Alehem, --- א דאקטאר --- גארקי, מ. --- רבינוביץ, שלום, --- שאָלעמ־אלײכעמ, --- שאלום־אלייכעם --- שאלעם אלייכעם --- שאלעם עלייכם, --- שאלעם־אלייכעם, --- שאלעם־אליכם, --- שאלעם-אלײכעם --- שולם עליכם, --- שלום אליכם --- שלום אליכם, --- שלום עליכם --- שלום עליכםת --- שלום עליכם, --- שלום שליכם --- שלום, עליכם --- Abramovich, S. M., --- Abramovitsh, S. Y., --- Broyde, Shalom Jacob, --- Mendale Mocher Sfarim, --- Mendele Mocher Seforim, --- Mendélé Moher Sefarim, --- Méndele Moijer Sfórim, --- Mendele Moĭkher-Sforim, --- Mendele Mojcher Sforim, --- Méndele Mójer Sfórim, --- Mendele Mokher Seforim, --- Mendele Mokher Sfarim, --- Mendele Mokher Sforim, --- Mendele Moykher-Sforim, --- Mendele the Book Peddler, --- Mendeli Mokher Sefarim, --- Mendeli Moykher Sforim, --- Mocher Sforim, Mendele, --- Moĭkher-Sforim, Mendele, --- Mokher-Sefarim, Mendele, --- Mokher-Sfarim, Mendele, --- Moykher-Sforim, Mendele, --- Sefarim, Mendele Mokher, --- Seforim, Mendele Mocher, --- Sfarim, Mendale Mocher, --- Sforim, Mendele Mocher, --- אבראמאוויץ, ש. --- אברמוביץ, ש״י, --- אברמוביץ, שלום יעקב, 1836־1917 --- ש״י אברמוביץ, ש״י, --- מנדלה מוכר ספרים --- מנדלי --- מנדלי מוכר ספרחם --- מנדלי מוכר ספרים, --- מנדלי, מוכר ספרים, --- מנדלי מוכר סופרים --- מנדלי מוכר־ספרים --- מנדלי מוכר־ספרים, --- מענגעלע מוכר ספרים --- מענדנלע מויכער־ספארים, --- מענדעלע --- מענדעלע מוכר ספרים. --- מענדעלע מוכר ספרים, --- מענדעלע מוכר ספרימס, --- מענדעלע מוכר ספורים --- מענדעלע מויכער-ספארים --- מענדעלי מוכר ספרים --- מענדעלי מוכר ספרים, --- מענדילי מוכר ספרים --- מעדעלע מוכר ספרים --- מעדלי מוכר ספרים --- מעדלי מוכר ספרים, --- Abramowich, Shalom Jacob, --- Perez, Isaac Loeb, --- Perez, Jizchok Leib, --- Perets, J. L., --- Perec, I. L., --- Péretz, Itzjoc Léibusch, --- Peretz, Ițhoc Leibuș, --- Peret︠s︡, It︠s︡khok-Leĭbush, --- Perets, Y. L. --- Perets, Yitsḥaḳ Leyb, --- Peretz, Isaac Loeb, --- Peretz, I. L., --- Peretz, Y. L., --- Perez, Jizchak Lejb, --- Peret︠s︡, I.-L. --- Peretz, Itzchok Leibush, --- Perez, I. L., --- Peretz, Yitzchaq Leib, --- Perec, J. L., --- י. ל. פרץ --- פּרץ. י. ל. --- פערעץ, ייצכאק-לייבוש --- פערעץ, י.-ל --- פערעצ, ייצכאק־לייביש --- פרץ י. ל., --- פרץַ, יצחק לײב, --- פרץ, יהודה ליב, --- פרץ, יצחק לב --- פרץ, יצחק ליבוש --- פרץ, יצחק ליבוש, --- פרץ, יצחק לייב --- פרץ, יצחק לייבוש --- פרץ, יצחק לייבוש, --- פרץ, יצחק לייב, --- פרץ, יצחק ל., --- פרץ, י. ל. --- פרץ, י. ל. פרץ, --- פרץ, י. ל., --- Perec, Icchok Lejb, --- Perec, Icchok Lejbusz, --- Peretz, Itsjok L., --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Mendele Mokher Sefarim --- Criticism and interpretation --- Sholem Aleichem --- Peretz, Isaac Leib --- Social problems in literature --- Satire [Yiddish ] --- History and criticism --- Parody --- Mendele Mokher Sefarim, - 1835-1917 - Criticism and interpretation. --- Sholem Aleichem, - 1859-1916 - Criticism and interpretation. --- Peretz, Isaac Leib, - 1851 or 2-1915 - Criticism and interpretation. --- Satire, Yiddish - History and criticism.

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