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Of all the 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 to shtetl. From the Trade Paperback edition.