Classic Yiddish Fiction: Abramovitsh, Sholem Aleichem, and Peretz edited by Ken Frieden Holocaust History he visits key locations central

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was also the foremost interpreter of Sholom Aleichem's work

Translated by Benjamin Harshav

Classic Yiddish Fiction: Abramovitsh, Sholem Aleichem, and Peretz edited by Ken Frieden Holocaust History he visits key locations centralYiddish literature, despite its remarkable achievements during an era bounded by Russian reforms in the 1860s and the First World War, has never before been surveyed by a scholarly monograph in English. Classic Yiddish Fiction provides an overview and interprets the Yiddish fiction of S. Y. Abramovitsh, Sholem Aleichem, and I. L. Peretz. While analyzing their works, Frieden situates these three authors in their literary world and in relation to their