Tevye the Dairyman and The Railroad Stories

This brilliant new translation brings together for the first time in English all the tales of Tevye and his daughters and the twenty-one railroad stories of the famous Yiddish humorist, Sholem Aleichem.
Of all the characters in modern Jewish fiction, the most beloved is Tevye, the buoyant, compassionate, philosophical, Bible-quoting dairyman whose life embodies the precarious existence of a Jew in Eastern Europe. Three of Tevye's daughters - Tsaytl, Hodl, and Chava - are well know from the musical Fiddler on the Roof. Here the story continues with the tales of his younger daughters, Shprintze and Beilke. Each of Tevye's daughters presents him with a new crises by her marital choice, mirroring the stages in the evolution and disintegration of Jewish life in Russia.