On cover: "55 short stories and sketches from the Old Country - including the wonderful tales of Tevye and his daughters that became Fiddler on the Roof.".
Describes some events in the life of Sholem Rabinowitz, the Yiddish author whose pen name was Sholom Aleichem, and who wrote stories about Jewish life in nineteenth-century Russia.
Presents a comprehensive collection of seventeen short stories by three classic nineteenth-century Jewish authors--S.Y. Abramovitsh, Sholem Aleichem, and I.L. Peretz.