Stories and Satires By Sholom Aleichem

Not Sholem Aleichem's best work. At the beginning I was enjoying the depictions of village life, but very quickly became bored. The satire is more like a blunt instrument than a scalpel, relying on unlikeable characters and plots that are predictable even when they're utterly ridiculous. That's

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what I get for choosing this to borrow instead of his Tevye the Dairyman stories instead.

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