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Tevye the Dairyman
by Sholem Aleichem
Thursday, May 25, 2006 Reception
6:30 pm Discussion
7:15 pm -9:00 pm
Miami Dade College
Kendall Campus, Room K-413
11011 SW 104th St. Miami, FL
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Reception
6:30
pm - 7:15 pm with hors d'oeuvres, dramatic
readings, music by Professor Jay Brown,
and art installation by Alberto Meza, Florida
Professor of the Year, 2004
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Discussion
Join us 7:15 pm
- 9:00 pm
for a lecture followed by a discussion with Professor Cary Ser,
English Department, Miami Dade College
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“This fresh translation is likely to serve as
the indispensable Sholem Aleichem for some time
to come.” –Cynthia Ozick
“The
editor and translator have done brilliantly.”-
Saul Bellow
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“A
body of work that is very much alive and that
continues to dazzle us with brilliance, wit, and
humanity.” – Leonard Nimov
Hillel Halkin is
an award-winning translator and writer whose
most recent work is Across the Sabbath River:
In Search of a Lost Tribe of Israel.
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Of
all characters in modern Jewish fiction, the
most beloved is Tevye, the compassionate,
irrepressible, Bible-quoting dairyman from
Anatevka, who has been immortalized in the
writings of Sholem Aleichem and in acclaimed and
award-winning theatrical and film adaptations.
And
no Yiddish writer was more beloved than Tevye’s
creator, Sholem Rabinovich (1859-1916), the
“Jewish Mark Twain,” who wrote under the pen
name of Sholem Aleichem. Beautifully translated
by Hillel Halkin, here is Sholem Aleichem’s
heartwarming and poignant account of Tevye and
his daughters, together with the “Railroad
Stories,” twenty-one tales that examine human
nature and modernity as they are perceived by
men and women riding the trains from shtetl and
shtetl.
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