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The Further Adventures of Menachem-Mendl: New York-Warsaw-Vienna-Yehupetz

The Further Adventures of Menachem-Mendl: New York-Warsaw-Vienna-Yehupetz

Aleichem, Sholem
Shevrin, Aliza

Hardcover

Series: Library of Modern Jewish Literature (Hardcover)

Literary CriticismGeneral Fiction

Publisher Price: $26.95

ISBN10: 081560677X
ISBN13: 9780815606772
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: Mar 1 2001
Pages: 186
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.77 Width: 6.34 Depth: 9.28
Language: English

Menachem-Mendl is one of Sholem Aleichem's most delightful literary creations, a dreamy optimist who travels to New York and across Eastern Europe in search of an elusive fortune at the approach of World War I. His wife, Sheyne-Sheyndl, and children are left behind in the shtetl of Kasrilevka.

Written in 1913 and previously unpublished in the United States, The Further Adventures of Menachem-Mendl consists of Menachem-Mendl's letters home and his wife's often tart replies. Working for Yiddish newspapers, Menachem-Mendl writes his opinions of world events and Jewish problems. Through the eyes of this shrewd smalltown Jew we see events leading to a cataclysmic war, which include his uncannily familiar treatment of conflicts in the Balkans. Menachem-Mendl describes the Zionist Congress in Vienna with Aleichem's inimitable humor, exaggeration, and realism. In her replies to her husband, Sheyne-Sheyndl reminds him that his family grapples with crushing poverty and persecution. Aliza Shevrin's fluid translation captures the idiomatic richness

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