My Father, Sholom AleichemThis memoir of Sholom Aleichem by his youngest daughter is at once the first complete biography of a great writer and a warm and charming evocation of family life in pre-Revolutionary Russia. |
Contents
FOREWORD | 11 |
Fragments of Memory | 15 |
The Worlds My Father Came From | 29 |
Copyright | |
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