Sholem Aleichem

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  • Bibliography:
    28 Books
  • First Book:
    June 1959
  • Latest Book:
    February 2021
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Book List in Order: 28 titles

  • Tevye's Daughters

    Tevye's Daughters is the book that was made into the blockbuster play and movie, “Fiddler on the Roof”. This movie brought us such famous and universally recognizable songs as “If I were a Rich Man”, "Matchmaker, Matchmaker Make me a Match", ...

  • The Adventures Of Menahem-Mendl

    Menahem-Mendl is one of Sholom Aleichem's richest characterizations. An incurable optimist, whose every venture ends in disaster, he is the perennial Luftmensch who never ceases to build castles in the air.

    The exchange of letters between Menahem-M...

  • Holiday Tales of Sholem Aleichem

  • Nightingale

  • Favorite Tales of Shalom Aleichem

  • Around the Table

  • Hanukah Money

  • Tevye the Dairyman

  • Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories

    Of all the characters in modern Jewish fiction, the most beloved is Tevye, the compassionate, irrepressible, Bible-quoting dairyman from Anatevka, who has been immortalized in the writings of Sholem Aleichem and in acclaimed and award-winning theatri...



  • Nineteen to the Dozen: Monologues and Bits and Bobs of Other Things

    In each of these monologues, a man or woman comes forward to tell the story to implied listeners - a rabbi, a doctor, or the author himself - who say nothing. The stories provide a portrayal of Eastern European Jewish society and contribute towards d...

  • Adventures of Mottel: The Cantor's Son

    "Mottel may have been a young demon to manage, but he is a pleasure to read about. Nothing daunts him. His spirit soars above the cruelties, the world has not grown any gentler since this book was written. Sholom Aleichem's wit and humanity enrich an...

  • Stories And Satires

    A creator of stories and satires, novels and plays, monologues and children's tales, fantasies and sketches, Sholom Aleichem endeared himself to the public with his shrewd, loving, and accurate portrayals of the speech, manners, and foibles of the Ea...

  • Bewitched Tailor

    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 write...

  • Old Country Tales

  • Motl, Pesi DEM Hasin

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

    This volume follows the hapless, albeit hilarious, adventures of Menachem-Mendl, 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 and children are left behind...

  • From the Home to America

  • In America

  • Stempeniu

    Even the most pious Jew need not shed so many tears over the destruction of Jerusalem as the women were in the habit of shedding when Stempenyu was playing.

    The first work of Sholom Aleichem’s to be translated into English -- this long out-o...



  • Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor's Son

    For the 150th anniversary of the birth of the "Jewish Mark Twain,"a new translation of his most famous works Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor's Son are the most celebrated characters in all of Jewish fiction. Tevye is the lovable, Bible-quoting...

  • Wandering Stars

    The first complete translation of an epic love story by the creator of Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof Next year marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of the great Yiddish humorist Sholem Aleichem as well as the 100th anniversary of the publicatio...

  • Stempenyu: A Jewish Romance

    Even the most pious Jew need not shed so many tears over the destruction of Jerusalem as the women were in the habit of shedding when Stempenyu was playing.The first work of Sholom Aleichem’s to be translated into English -- this long out-of-print...

  • The Letters of Menakhem-Mendl and Sheyne-Sheyndl and Motl, the Cantor's Son

    This volume presents an outstanding new translation of two favorite comic novels by the preeminent Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem (1859"1916). The Letters of Menakhem Mendl and Sheyne Sheyndl portrays a tumultuous marriage through letters exchanged...

  • Tevye the Milkman

    Tevye the Milkman, a uniquely charming Jewish novel from Tsarist rural Russia, provided the principal character for Fiddler on the Roof. Here we have the full story, with all its Jewish humour, wisdom and despair. The central character, Tevye the ...

  • Jewish Children

    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 (18...

  • Three Passover Tales

    Sholem Aleichem—that iconic, versatile Yiddish writer—explores Passover themes in these three short stories, newly translated into English: An Early Passover is a satiric tale of a Hasidic refugee from Eastern Europe who suddenly fin...

  • In the Storm

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    Three families of Jews who share the same address in Kiev--a rich businessman, his Orthodox wife, and medical student daughter, an assimilated, anti-Zionist pharmacist and his son, and a poor shoemaker and his sons--become caught in the turmoil of th...

  • Marienbad

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Sholem Aleichem has published 28 books.

Sholem Aleichem does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Three Passover Tales, was published in February 2021.

The first book by Sholem Aleichem, Tevye's Daughters, was published in June 1959.

No. Sholem Aleichem does not write books in series.
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