TRANSLATOR'S NOTE
Really a Sukkah!
Benny's Luck
A Ruined Passover
The Esrog
The Goldspinners
The Passover Exiles
The First Commune
GLOSSARY

Seven childrens' tales, from one of the world's greatest writers of Yiddish stories. Centering around the Jewish holidays, stories include "Benny's Luck," about the amazing good fortune of a young boy and his dreydl, and "Really a Sukkah!" a glimpse of a busy holiday celebration that ends less happily than it began.

Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich (1859?1916), better known as Sholom Aleichem, fled the Russian pogroms and eventually settled in the United States. His tales of life in his native country inspired the Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof.