A boy and the orphaned girl Busie read the Song of Songs together; a village child waits all Passover night for Elijah the Prophet; schoolboys plan a holiday outing and a feast of greens for Shevuous. These stories of shtetl childhood, translated from Yiddish by Hannah Berman, catch the festivals, terrors and comedies of growing up in the Jewish towns of the Russian Empire.
Warm, funny stories from the Yiddish writer whose Tevye tales became Fiddler on the Roof. Download the free EPUB.