The best of Sholem Aleichem [Hardcover]

Sholem Aleichem (Author)

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Text: English, Yiddish (translation)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 276 pages
• Publisher: New Republic Books; First Edition edition (1979)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0915220482
• ISBN-13: 978-0915220489
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #698,976 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Good book Great price, January 16, 2012

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5.0 out of 5 stars Two of the greatest critics of Yiddish literature make their choice of the best of Sholom Aleichem, July 30, 2010

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Shalom Freedman "Shalom Freedman" (Jerusalem,Israel) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Best of Sholom Aleichem (Paperback)

For Irving Howe Sholom Aleichem is the writer whose work best embodies and pervades Yiddish culture as a whole. In this selection of the best of Sholom Aleichem he and Ruth Wisse give the English - language reader an opportunity to sample the best of Sholom Aleichem. However the reader should note that he is a kind of poetic and ironic writer whose work can only be most deeply appreciated in its native language. This language has the irony idiom and nuance which is in a sense untranslatable. Howe wrote of Sholom Aleichem's work as containing a love of humanity rich in irony.
One can taste that from this collection but the true and full meal is available only to those who know Yiddish in a deep way.