Tevye the Dairyman and The Railroad Stories
Tells the stories of a milkman and his daughters and a salesman's encounters with fellow Jews while riding the train
Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor's Son
Tevye is the compassionate, lovable, Bible-quoting dairyman from Anatevka, and Tevye the Dairyman is a heartwarming and poignant account of life in turn-of-the-century Russia. Through the workaday world of a rural dairyman, his grit, wit, and hear...
Nineteen To the Dozen
The author of Yiddish novels and short stories, Sholem Aleichem, evokes the voices of Yiddish speakers in these monologues written between 1901 and 1916. In each piece, a man or a woman comes forward to tell the story.
Motl Peyse dem Khazns
Motl Peyse dem Khazns
Wandering Stars
In a small shtetl in Bessarabia in the early twentieth century, a traveling Yiddish acting company comes to town. The townspeople react in unison: 'What is this? Actor-types? Comedians? Who needs them'? But for Reisel, daughter of a poor cantor, and Leibel, son of a rich man, the theatre is magic, and they immediately fall under its spell. Fleeing their small town, they run off together with the acting company but soon become separated from each other. Reisel goes on to become a star on the concert stage, and Leibel a sensation on the theatrical stage. They take new names - Reisel becoming Rosa Spivak, and Leibel becoming Leo Rafalesko - and repeatedly try to meet, but they are kept apart by their aspirations and successes, and by the interventions of a motley cast of impresarios, who exploit them for their own enrichment. They are wandering stars, shooting from stage to stage, from city to city, touring all the major European capitals and eventually reaching New York, a city of
Moshkeleh the Thief
This first English translation of Sholom Aleichem's rediscovered novel, Moshkeleh the Thief, has a riveting plot, an unusual love story, and a keenly observed portrayal of an underclass Jew replete with characters never before been seen in Yiddish...
Covid
Covid
Classic Yiddish Stories of S. Y. Abramovitsh, Sholem Aleichem, and I. L. Peretz
Two novellas by S. Y. Abramovitsh open this anthology, the first comprehensive overview of works by the three classic Yiddish authors. They describe Jewish life in Eastern Europe during the nineteenth century and introduce the reader to Abramovits...
Classic Yiddish Stories of S. Y. Abramovitsh, Sholem Aleichem, and I. L. Peretz
Two early works by S.Y. Abramovitsh introduce the reader to Abramovitsh's alter ego Mendele the Book Peddler. Mendele narrates both The Little Man and Fishke the Lame. In different voices, he also presents a diverse cast of characters including Is...
Treasury of Sholom Aleichem Children's Stories
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Scholem Alejchem. Eisenbahngeschichten. Schriften Eines Handelsreisenden
Mit dem dritten Band der Schriftenreihe Jiddistik: Edition & Forschung liegt der vollst ndige Erz hlungszyklus Eisenbahngeschichten von Scholem Alejchem (1859-1916) nun erstmals zweisprachig, jiddisch und deutsch, vor. In diesem Werk begegnen wir einem der drei Klassiker der jiddischen Literatur in der Gattung, in der er eine besondere Meisterschaft erlangt hatte: der Kurzgeschichte. Seine pr gnante Schilderung von Menschentypen und Alltagssituationen in ausdrucksstarken Monologen haben ihn ber die jiddische Literatur hinaus ber hmt gemacht. Als Nachwort zur vorliegenden Ausgabe dient Dan Mirons eindr cklicher Essay Reise ins Zwielicht, der eine ausf hrliche Entstehungsgeschichte bietet und eine multifokale Interpretation des Werks leistet. Die Reihe Jiddistik: Edition & Forschung wird von Marion Aptroot, Efrat Gal-Ed, Roland Gruschka und Simon Neuberg herausgegeben.
Musical Tradition of the Eastern European Synagogue
The first exhaustive treatment of Eastern European Jewish music tracing its roots from biblical times through its zenith in the nineteenth century to its decline in the late twentieth century. Sholom Kalib has taken on the crucial task of collecti...
Invisible Sun
The first comprehensive English collection from one of the world's most influential mystics-Attar-the twelfth-century poet Rumi called his master. Twelfth-century Persian poet Attar (1145-1221) was revered by Rumi and though his work is beloved ar...
After One Hundred Years
The exhibition "Meisterwerke muhammedanischer Kunst" that took place in Munich in 1910 marked a turning point in the approach to Islamic Art. The show attempted to break free of Orientalism and exotic fantasies and, in doing so, set a ne...
Persian Historiography across Empires
Persian Historiography across Empires
Domain Engineering
Domain engineering is a set of activities intended to develop, maintain, and manage the creation and evolution of an area of knowledge suitable for processing by a range of software systems. ¿It is of considerable practical significance, as it pro...
The Koren Shalem Humash with Rashi and Onkelos
The Koren Shalem Humash with Rashi and Onkelos
Koren Shalem Siddur with Tabs, Compact, Emanuel
The Shalem Siddur is an expanded version of the popular Sacks Siddur. A full Siddur for weekday, Shabbat, holidays, and festivals, it features an introduction to Jewish prayer, translation and commentary by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. This edition has additional features such as Torah readings for holidays, Haftarah for Yom HaAtzma'ut, new English translations of the Torah readings for the Shalosh Regalim (Sukkot, Pesah and Shavuot), 5 Megillot with new English translation, a section for bakashot (personal supplications). The Shalem Siddur is available in in hardcover, soft cover, flex cover and festive Emanuel cover in a convenient, compact size.