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Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories (1996), translated by Hillel Halkin, is a collection of Sholem Aleichem's Yiddish stories from the early 1900s. Aleichem's tales about Tevye, considered some of the finest examples of storytelling in all of literature, formed the basis for the popular musical Fiddler on the Roof.
Found Treasures: Stories by Yiddish Women Writers (1994) presents an anthology of tales about life in Eastern European shtetls (Yiddish neighborhoods or villages), the Holocaust, and Jewish immigration to the United States and Israel. This collection includes stories previously available only in Yiddish and was edited by Frieda Forman, Ethel Raicus, Sarah Swartz, and Margie Wolfe.
The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer (1983) includes forty-seven of Singer's short stories selected by the author. The collection features some of Singer's lesser-known works as well as such classics as "Gimpel the Fool," "The...
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