Jewish Children (Yudishe Kinder)
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179
1922
English
- A page from the Song of Songs
- Passover in a Village
- Elijah the Phophet
- Getzel
- A Lost L’Ag Beomer
- Murderers
- Three Little Heads
- Greens for Shevuous
- Another page from the Song of Songs
- A Pity for the Living
- The Tabernacle (The Sukkah)
- The Dead Citron
- Isshur the Beadle
- Boaz the Teacher
- The Spinning Top
- Esther
- The Pocket-Knife
- On the Fiddle
- This Night
Although written from a child's perspective, this is not a kids book but a series of funny, poignant, and sometimes disturbing stories about life in a late 19th-century Russian-Jewish village -- the world of my grandparents. Sholem Rabinovich (1859-1916) was born in Pereiaslav, Ukraine and later immigrated to New York. His short stories about Tevye and his daughters were freely adapted into the musical FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. Rabinovich's will contained the following injunction: "Let my name be recalled with laughter or not at all." His translator, Hannah Berman, was Irish of Lithuanian descent.
Some of these stories may be too intense for younger children. (summary by Adrian Praetzellis)
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