“This fresh translation is likely to serve as the indispensable Sholem Aleichem for some time to come.” —Cynthia Ozick
“The editor and translator have done brilliantly.” —Saul Bellow
“A body of work that is very much alive and that continues to dazzle us with its brilliance, wit, and humanity.” —Leonard Nimoy
Contents
Tevye the Dairyman
Tevye Strikes It Rich
Tevye blows a Small Fortune
Today’s Children
Hodl
Chava
Shprintze
Tevye Leaves for the Land of Israel
Lekh-Lekho
The Railroad Stories
To the Reader
Competitors
The Happiest Man in All Kodny
Baranovich Station
Eighteen from Pereshchepena
The Man from Beunos Aires
Elul
The Slowpoke Express
The Miracle of Hoshana Rabbah
The Wedding that Came without Its Band
The Tallis Koton
A Game of Sixty-Six
High School
The Automatic Exemption
It Doesn’t Pay to Be Good
Burned Out
Hard Luck
Fated for Misfortune
Go Climb a Tree If You Don’t Like It
The Tenth Man
Third Class
