The third volume in the series Yiddish: Edition & Research presents the Railroad Stories of Sholem Aleichem (1859-1916) in their entirety, for the first time in a bilingual Yiddish-German edition. We encounter in this work one of the three classic writers of Yiddish literature in the genre he excelled in: the short story.
Sholem Aleichem's evocative portrayals of characters and ordinary situations in powerfully expressive monologues have made him...