tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post6159808159093515549..comments2024-03-27T16:48:21.039-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: Stempenyu: A Jewish Romance - Sholem Aleichem's first long novelAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-57461928431384896272011-08-30T11:53:47.914-05:002011-08-30T11:53:47.914-05:00The S. Ansky book is a model anthology.
Marienbad...The S. Ansky book is a model anthology.<br /><br /><i>Marienbad</i> does sound pretty good. The most amazing thing about <i>Stempenyu</i> is that, thanks to the current peculiar combination of publisher and distributor and bookstore, I found and bought my copy in the Chicago O'Hare airport, just where a 1916 translation of an 1888 Yiddish novel is unlikely to be.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-12534346018383021312011-08-30T11:26:25.906-05:002011-08-30T11:26:25.906-05:00It's about time I got back to some Yiddish boo...It's about time I got back to some Yiddish books. In line with your recommendations of Aleichem's Tevye and I L Peretz' Best Of - which happen also to be the first two books in Schocken Books' Library of Yiddish Classics - I'm starting on the third, S Ansky's The Dybbuk and Other Writings (which fits in a bit with my theatre reading too).<br /><br />As I may have said before, I read Aleichem's Marienbad, which is a sort of cross between the monologue and the novel, being a cacophonous letter-based narrative. Not as good as Tevye, but still enjoyable.obookihttp://www.mjiles.com/obookispage/noreply@blogger.com