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The Bewitched Tailor

By: Sholem Aleichem
Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
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At the end of the 19th century, Jewish writers began writing in Yiddish and creating for the first time popular literature that brought alive the small dramas, struggles, and joys of ordinary life. Sholem Aleichem was one of the very few modern writers who spoke for an entire people. This collection of stories includes the title piece and seven other tales.

"Wherefore a novel, when life itself is a novel?" This epigraph to Sholom Aleikhem's autobiographical narrative From the Fair could be used for everything that came from the pen of that gifted Jewish writer:

Sholom Aleikhem's characters tell their own story. The Kasrils - inhabitants of Kasilovka - as the writer affectionately calls them, appear before the listener in all their direct and artless simplicity. They wear their hearts upon their sleeves. The very pen-name of the author (Sholom Aleikhem means "peace be upon you") serves him, as it were, as a kindly greeting to his people, encouraging them to "Speak for yourselves. Show yourselves to the world."

This collection contains:

  • "A Love Affair"
  • "Three Widows"
  • "The Bewitched Tailor"
  • "If I Were a Rothchild"
  • "The Pot"
  • "Advice"
  • "Kodno"
  • "Methuselah"
Public Domain (P)2019 Steven Jay Cohen
Classics Jewish Short Stories Fiction Heartfelt
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these are masterworks of short stories catching...

the flavour of forsaken dominions of the pre stalinist judaica of Eastern Europe and Russia.
as shalom points out laughter is good for the soul and can prove to be healing for anyone moving from shteitle to shteitle.
from the absurdity of buying a goat as if it was a consumer durable, to advising someone to get a divorce there can be a certain joy that can be found even within the hardship of peasant life.
a master of storytelling these short stories had me hanging on every word and gripped by pathos. I shall read this again and again.

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