{"product_id":"moshkeleh-the-thief-a-rediscovered-novel-by-sholom-aleichem","title":"Moshkeleh the Thief: A Rediscovered Novel by Sholom Aleichem","description":"\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif rgb font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\"\u003eThis first English translation of Sholom Aleichem's rediscovered novel, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif rgb italic font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\" font-style:=\"\"\u003eMoshkeleh the Thief\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif rgb font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\"\u003e, has a riveting plot, an unusual love story, and a keenly observed portrayal of an underclass Jew replete with characters never before been seen in Yiddish literature.\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eThe eponymous hero, Moshkeleh, is a robust chap and horse thief. When Tsireleh, daughter of a tavern keeper, flees to a monastery with the man she loves—a non-Jew she met at the tavern—the humiliated tavern keeper's family turns to Moshkeleh for help, not knowing he too is in love with her.\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eFor some unknown reason, this innovative novel does not appear in the standard twenty-eight-volume edition of Sholom Aleichem's collected works, published after his death. Strikingly, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif rgb italic font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\" font-style:=\"\"\u003eMoshkeleh the Thief \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif rgb font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\"\u003eshows Jews interacting with non-Jews in the Russian Pale of Settlement—a groundbreaking theme in modern Yiddish literature. This novel is also important for Sholom Aleichem's approach to his material. Yiddish literature had long maintained a tradition of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif rgb italic font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\" font-style:=\"\"\u003eedelkeyt\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif rgb font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\"\u003e, refinement. Authors eschewed violence, the darker side of life, and people on the fringe of respectability. Moshkeleh thus enters a Jewish arena not hitherto explored in a novel.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important;\"\u003eSholom Aleichem\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e, the pen name of Sholom Rabinowitz (1859–1916), became the most widely read writer in the history of Yiddish literature by the end of the nineteenth century. His stories about Tevye the dairyman became the basis for the hit musical,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;\"\u003e Fiddler on the Roof\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important;\"\u003eCurt Leviant \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eis the prize-winning author or translator of more than twenty-five books. His latest novel is \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;\"\u003eMe, Mo, Mu, Ma \u0026amp; Mod; or, Which Will It Be, Me and Mazal, or Gila and Me?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"IsraelBookShop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42254529855653,"sku":"9780827615151","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0558\/8860\/9445\/files\/978-0827615151.jpg?v=1725093930","url":"https:\/\/www.israelbookshop.com\/products\/moshkeleh-the-thief-a-rediscovered-novel-by-sholom-aleichem","provider":"IsraelBookShop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}