Jewish Children (Yudishe Kinder)

Author(s): שלום עליכם Sholem Aleichem, Hannah Berman

Genre(s): Historical Fiction, Short Stories, *non-fiction

Narrators: Adrian Praetzellis

Number of Chapters: 19

Length: 7 hours and 36 minutes

Language: English

Although written from a child's perspective, this is not a kids book but a series of funny, poignant, and sometimes disturbing stories about life in a late 19th-century Russian-Jewish village -- the world of my grandparents. Sholem Rabinovich (1859-1916) was born in Pereiaslav, Ukraine and later immigrated to New York. His short stories about Tevye and his daughters were freely adapted into the musical FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. Rabinovich's will contained the following injunction: "Let my name be recalled with laughter or not at all." His translator, Hannah Berman, was Irish of Lithuanian descent.