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Stempenyu / Sholom Aleichem ; translated by Hannah Berman.
Van Pelt Library PJ5129.R2 S7713 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sholem Aleichem, 1859-1916.
- Series:
- Melville House classics
- Art of the novella
- The art of the novella
- Standardized Title:
- Sṭempenyu. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--Poland--Fiction.
- Jews.
- Poland.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 195 pages ; 18 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Hoboken, NJ : Melville House, 2007.
- Summary:
- This funny tale of a fiddler whose music stirs villagers to the heights of romantic frivolity supposedly inspired Chagall's famous "fiddler on the roof" painting. A classic, it is the humorous and touching saga of shtetl life and what happens when one young woman falls for a fiddler as famous as a rock star.
- Notes:
- "First published in 1886 in Folksbibliothek; first publication in English was by Methuen & Co. (London, 1913)."--verso t.p.
- ISBN:
- 9781933633169
- 1933633166
- OCLC:
- 191069979
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