Contents
Tevye the Dairyman
Tevye Strikes It Rich
Tevye blows a Small Fortune
Today's Children
Hodl
Chava
Shprintze
Tevye Leaves for the Land of Israel
Lekh-Lekho
The Railroad Stories
To the Reader
Competitors
The Happiest Man in All Kodny
Baranovich Station
Eighteen from Pereshchepena
The Man from Beunos Aires
Elul
The Slowpoke Express
The Miracle of Hoshana Rabbah
The Wedding that Came without Its Band
The Tallis Koton
A Game of Sixty-Six
High School
The Automatic Exemption
It Doesn't Pay to Be Good
Burned Out
Hard Luck
Fated for Misfortune
Go Climb a Tree If You Don't Like It
The Tenth Man
Third Class
Hillel Halkin is an award-winning translator and a writer whose most recent work is Across the Sabbath River- In Search of a Lost Tribe of Israel.
“This fresh translation is likely to serve as the indispensable
Sholem Aleichem for some time to come.” —Cynthia Ozick
“The editor and translator have done brilliantly.” —Saul Bellow
“A body of work that is very much alive and that continues to
dazzle us with its brilliance, wit, and humanity.” —Leonard Nimoy
"This fresh translation is likely to serve as the indispensable
Sholem Aleichem for some time to come." -Cynthia Ozick
"The editor and translator have done brilliantly." -Saul Bellow
"A body of work that is very much alive and that continues to
dazzle us with its brilliance, wit, and humanity." -Leonard Nimoy
Gr 7 Up‘These three cassettes contain six Sholem Aleichem stories (one per side) about Tevye, the irrepressible character made familiar by Fiddler on the Roof. If listeners absorb them in order, the story of Tevye and his family unfolds chronologically, covering a period of several years. The author's use of language paints pictures which enable listeners to see rural Russia at the turn of the century. They also get a taste for what it meant to be a Jew in that time and place. Even though many of the anecdotes are humorous in nature, the issues are serious and include courting and marriage customs, dress and food, and persecution of Jews (pogroms and expulsions). Theodore Bikel is the perfect choice as storyteller, and not only because he has portrayed Tevye on the stage. His resonant voice and acting ability add to the portrayal of Tevye and other characters. By slight changes in inflection, Bikel brings every character to life, male or female. His reading includes the explanation of all Hebrew and Yiddish phrases, so even listeners unfamiliar with Jewish culture and history can follow the story. Libraries with audiobooks in their collections will want to add this abridgment of the Sholem Aleichem stories.-Shelley Glantz, Arlington High School, MA
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