World of Sholem Aleichem, The

By Samuel, Maurice
Simon & Schuster, 1986, Paperback, 344 pp., Out of print, ISBN: 0689707096

A reissue of a book originally published in the 1940s.

In it, Samuel recreates the life of Jews living in Eastern Europe during the late 19th century, both as it existed in reality and as it was pictured in the works of Sholom Aleichem. From the publisher