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Shir Ha-shirim

Шолом Алейхем

A boy's tender love for the daughter of his brother, a girl his age. Shimek's shyness is so acute he can only communicate his heart by noting the ways of nature and quoting from the biblical "Song of Songs." First English translation of an illustrated 1910 novel evoking the lost world of Eastern European Jewry.

GenresYiddish fictionTranslations into RussianShtetlsFictionMan-woman relationshipsReligious aspects

95 pages

Russian edition · First published 2005 by Гешарим · ISBN 9785932732007

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