Reviewed by Brander Matthews
+ N Y Times p6 O 31 ’20 2300w
“Even in unskillful hands the result would have been useful, and Mrs Aldrich has handled the rich material with good judgment and much insight, making a total that is always interesting, and often enlightening, entitling it to a definite place in our literary chronicles.”
+ Review 3:505 N 24 ’20 1000w + R of Rs 62:669 D ’20 120w + Springf’d Republican p10 O 13 ’20 940w + Wis Lib Bul 16:236 D ’20 80w
ALEICHEM, SHALOM. Jewish children; authorized tr. from the Yiddish by Hannah Berman. *$2 Knopf
20–26870
“Nineteen stories by one of the best known of contemporary Hebrew novelists and journalists, the Russian Shalom Rabinowitz (‘Shalom Aleichem’): picturing with a vividness and intimacy which has gained him the name of ‘the Yiddish Dickens’ the life of Jewish children in the villages and small towns of the Russian pale.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup F 26 ’20
“They are written with a terse, beautiful simplicity. An especial appeal for those who recognize the truth of the picture.”
+ Booklist 17:70 N ’20