Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor's Son

Suggestions for Further Reading

Bal-Makhshoves (Isidore Elyasiv). “Sholem Aleichem: A Typology of His Characters.” Prooftexts 6 (1986), 7-15.

Frieden, Ken. A Century in the Life of Sholem Aleichem’s Tevye. B. G. Rudolf Lectures in Judaic Studies. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1995.

“Tevye the Dairyman and His Daughters’ Rebellion.” In Classic Yiddish Fiction. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995.

Hadda, Janet. “Shprintse.” In Passionate Women, Passive Men: Suicide in Yiddish Literature. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1988.

Stern, Michael. “Tevye’s Art of Quotation.” Prooftexts 6 (1986), 79–96.

Wiener, Meyer. “On Sholem Aleichem’s Humor.” Prooftexts 6 (1986), 41–54.

Wisse, Ruth R. “The Comedy of Endurance.” In The Modern Jewish Canon: A Journey Through Language and Culture. New York: The Free Press, 2000.

Wolitz, Seth. “The Americanization of Tevye or Boarding the Jewish Mayflower.” American Quarterly 40 (1988), 514-36.

DeKoven Ezrahi, Sidra. “By Train, by Ship, by Subway: Sholem Aleichem and the American Voyage of Self Invention.” In Booking Passage: Exile and Homecoming in the Modern Jewish Imagination. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.

Halkin, Hillel. Introduction to Menakhem Mendl and Motl, The Cantor’s Son. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2002.

Kachuck, R. S. “On Sholem Aleichem’s Humor in English Translation.” YIVO Annual of Jewish Social Research 1 (1956-57), 39–81.

Miron, Dan. “Bouncing Back: Destruction and Recovery in Sholem Aleichem’s Motl Peyse dem khazns.” In The Image of the Shtetl. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2000.

Shmeruk, Khone. “Sholem Aleichem and America.” YIVO Annual of Jewish Social Research 20 (1991), 211-38.