Jewish Children (Yudishe Kinder)
SHOLEM ALEICHEM (1859 - 1916), translated by Hannah BERMAN (1883 - 1955)
Although written from a child's perspective, this is not a kids book but a series of funny, poignant, and sometimes disturbing stories about life in a late 19th-century Russian-Jewish village -- the world of my grandparents. Sholem Rabinovich (1859-1916) was born in Pereiaslav, Ukraine and later immigrated to New York. His short stories about Tevye and his daughters were freely adapted into Read more [...]