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The worlds of Sholem Aleichem
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- Creator
- Jeremy Dauber
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- New York : Nextbook ; Schocken, [2013]
- ©2013
- Series
- Physical Details
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- ix, 447 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780805242782, 0805242783
- OCLC
- ocn826076597
- "The remarkable life and afterlife of the man who created Tevye"--Dust jacket.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-433) and index.
- Overture: In Which We Set the Stage -- Act I. The Youth -- In Which We Begin Near the Very End (1915)-1859) -- In Which Our Hero Is Born, Spends His Early Years, and Faces Personal Tragedy (1859-1872) -- In Which Our Hero Gets-and Gives-an Education (1872-1877) -- In Which Our Hero Suffersthe Ecstasies and Agonies of Love (1877-1880) -- In Which Our Hero Finds the Two Loves of His Life (1881-1884) -- Act II. The Man of Business -- In Which Our Hero Gains a Fortune, and an Enemy (1884-1887) -- In Which Our Hero Publishes a Trial, and Endures the Trials of Publishing (1888) -- In Which Our Hero, Writing About an Artist, Becomes One (1888) -- In Which Our Hero Loves His People, Mourns His Father, and Dreams of Zion (1888-1890) -- In Which Our Hero Loses His Fortune and Gains His First Great Character (1890-1894) -- n Which Our Hero Meets a Dairyman (1894) -- Act Ill. -- In Which Our Hero Returns to Zion and Other Old Preoccupations (1895-1899) -- In Which Our Hero Reads the Newspapers in Yiddish and Becomes a Media Star (1899-1903) -- In Which Our Hero Spends the Holidays with Us, Visits a Town He Has Created, and Fails to Get a Word in Edgewise (1900-1907) -- In Which Our Hero Confronts Pogroms and Politics (1900-1905) -- In Which Our Hero Gets Caught Up in Someone Else's Solution (1902-1905) -- In Which Our Hero Suffers a Revolution and Makes a Decision (1905) -- Act IV. The Wanderer -- In Which Our Hero Takes Longer Than He Thought (1905-1906) -- In Which Our Hero Enters, and Exits, a New Stage (1906-1907) -- In Which Our Hero Has Joyous Meetings and Tragic Partings, Index and Seeks a Buried Treasure (1907-1908) -- In Which Our Hero Falls Ill (1908) -- In Which Our Hero Rides the Rails, and Returns to the Stage (1909) -- In Which Our Hero Looks Backward (1909-1911) -- In Which Our Hero Fights Back Against Libels of a Frivolous and Tragic Nature, and Encounters His Alternate Selves (1911-1913) -- In Which Our Hero Adapts (1913-1914) -- Act V. The Old Man -- In Which Our Hero Sees War and Warsaw (1914) -- In Which Our Hero Makes His Farewells to His Vanished World, and Feels the Pain of Children (1914-1916) -- In Which Our Hero's Story Comes to an End, and a Beginning (1915)-1916) -- Epilogue: An Afterlife in Ten Scenes -- Scene 1. New York/Washington, 1916 -- Scene 2. New York/London, 1912-1922 -- Scene 3. The Soviet Union, 1921-1929 -- Scene 4. New York, 1917-1939 -- Scene 5· Vilna, 1942 -- Scene 6. New York, 1943 -- Scene 7. New York, 1949-1959 -- Scene 8. New York, 1962-1964 -- Scene 9. Everywhere, 1964-2005 -- Scene IO. The Cloud, 2013 --