aleichem's

Updated: May 20, 2025

Shalom Aleichem's Jewish Children and Leon Kobrin's A Lithuanian Village surely belong, though their scenes are laid in Europe; as do Sholom Asch's vivid, moving novels Mottke the Vagabond concerned with the underworld of Poland and Uncle Moses concerned with the New York Ghetto the recent translations of which are slowly bringing to a wider American public the evidence that a really eminent novelist has hitherto been partly hidden by his alien tongue.

Carl Van Doren - Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920)