Word: aleichem
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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...COUNTRY (434 pp.)-Sholom Aleichem (translated by Julius and Frances Butwin)-Crown...
...Jews ever produced." Rabinowitch was born in Pereyaslav, the Ukraine, in 1859. In his father's inn Sol grew from boyhood to manhood-and observed the customers. At 23, he began to write-about the customers-for Hamelitz, a Jewish periodical. He took the pen name Sholom Aleichem, the Jewish equivalent of "How do you do?", and turned out copy like a mimeograph...
...children), he found that fame had preceded him. When he reached New York, even Mark Twain came calling. Twain's opening remark: "I've been anxious to meet you for a long time, because people have been telling me I'm the American Sholom Aleichem...
Considered singly, each story is like a peasant hut of "the old country," crammed with populous, colloquial Jewish life. Most of the characters are credible: they haggle over fish, are starved or stuffed, often pray, sometimes forsake their faith, sometimes commit suicide. But occasionally Aleichem takes off from reality, and then he is at his best. He tells of people with one eyebrow black and the other white, who cut up a sofa to make a fiddle, whose goats change sex, whose clocks strike 13, who drink so much they catch fire inside and burn to death...