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An insightful new biography of the most controversial and perhaps most fervent of all Zionist political figures
Hillel Halkin is een in Amerika geboren Israëlische vertaler, biograaf, literair criticus en romanschrijver. Zijn werk duikt diep in de Joodse cultuur en geschiedenis, vaak door middel van nauwgezette literaire analyses en kritiek. Halkins kenmerkende stijl staat bekend om zijn precisie en inzicht, waarbij hij complexe thema's en ideeën blootlegt in zijn schrijven. Met zijn literaire bijdragen bevordert hij het begrip en de waardering van de rijkdom van de Joodse literatuur en gedachte voor een breder publiek.



An insightful new biography of the most controversial and perhaps most fervent of all Zionist political figures
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 theatrical and film adaptations. And no Yiddish writer was more beloved than Tevye’s creator, Sholem Rabinovich (1859–1916), the “Jewish Mark Twain,” who wrote under the pen name of Sholem Aleichem. Beautifully translated by Hillel Halkin, here is Sholem Aleichem’s heartwarming and poignant account of Tevye and his daughters, together with the “Railroad Stories,” twenty-one tales that examine human nature and modernity as they are perceived by men and women riding the trains from shtetl to shtetl.
Elegant and learned, personal and universal, literary, philosophical, and historical-Hillel Halkin's finely wrought essays on themes of Jewish culture and life are an education in themselves.