Tevye the Milkman - Sholem Aleichem

Category: Adults, Classic, Historical Fiction, Humor
Language: English
Keywords: Tevye's Daughters Tzarist Russia

Written by Sholem Aleichem
Read by Neville Jason
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks
Release date: January 11, 2012
Duration: 05:55:28

Tevye the Milkman, a uniquely charming Jewish novel from Tsarist rural Russia, provided the principal character for Fiddler on the Roof. Here we have the full story, with all its Jewish humour, wisdom and despair. The central character, Tevye the Milkman, goes around the community in the Russian countryside delivering milk and cheese, but also dispensing wisdom from the Talmud laced with his commonsense view of life. Funny, enriching but also moving, this remarkable little Jewish classic will charm all who hear it, especially in the reading by veteran audiobook performer Neville Jason.

About the author:— Sholem Aleichem was the pen name of Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich, a leading Yiddish author and playwright. Sholem Aleichem was born into a Hasidic family in Pereyaslav and grew up in the nearby shtetl of Voronko, in the Poltava Governorate of the Russian Empire. His father was a rich merchant at that time. However, a failed business affair plunged the family into poverty and Solomon subsequently grew up in reduced circumstances. …. At first, Sholem Aleichem wrote in Russian and Hebrew. From 1883 on, he produced over forty volumes in Yiddish, thereby becoming a central figure in Jewish literature by 1890. He died in New York in 1916.

From The Old Country by Sholem Aleichem translated by Frances and Julius Butwin andTevye’s Daughters by Sholem Aleichem translated by Frances Butwin (both published by Valentine, Mitchell (London) 1973). By kind permission of Dr Joseph Butwin and Random House