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The central character, Tevye the milkman, goes around the community in the Russian countryside delivering milk and cheese, but also dispensing wisdom from the Talmud laced with his commonsense view of life. Funny, enriching, but also moving, this remarkable little Jewish classic will charm all who hear it, especially in the reading by veteran audiobook performer Neville Jason.

Cikl novell-pisem odno iz samyh yarkih proizvedeniy Sholoma-Aleyhema. Ego geroy, Menahem-Mendl, bednyy evrey iz mestechka, sudorozhno pytayushchiysya vybrat'sya iz nuzhdy i nadeyushchiysya nayti svoe schast'e v bol'shom gorode. Doverchivyy, nepraktichnyy i nedalekiy chelovek, on postoyanno stanovitsya zhertvoy obmana i terpit neudachu. O kazhdom svoem nachinanii on soobshchaet zhene v pis'mah, snachala vostorzhennyh, zatem otchayannyh.

At the end of the 19th century, Jewish writers began writing in Yiddish and creating for the first time popular literature that brought alive the small dramas, struggles, and joys of ordinary life. Sholem Aleichem was one of the very few modern writers who spoke for an entire people. This collection of stories includes the title piece and seven other tales.

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 the musical FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. Rabinovich's will contained the following injunction: "Let my name be recalled with laughter or not at all." His translator, Hannah Berman, was Irish of Lithuanian descent. ...