Ken Frieden holds the B.G. Rudolph Chair in Judaic Studies at Syracuse University, where he is a professor in the departments of English and Textual Studies, Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, and Religion. He has also written Freud's Dream of Interpretation, also published by SUNY Press, and Genius and Monologue.

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Preface

Introduction

Part One: Abramovitsh

1. The Grandfather of Yiddish Literature

2. S. Y. Abramovitsh: Mendele and the Origins of Modern Yiddish Fiction

3. Satire and Parody in Abramovitsh's Later Fiction

Part Two: Sholem Aleichem

4. The Grandson: Trials of a Yiddish Humorist

5. Sholem Aleichem's "Jewish Novels"

6. Tevye the Dairyman and His Daughters' Rebellion

7. Social Criticism in Sholem Aleichem's Monologues

8. Sholem Aleichem's Monologues of Mastery

Part Three: Peretz

9. The Father of Another Literary Family

10. I. L. Peretz: Monologue and Madness in the Early Stories

11. Irony in I. L. Peretz's Chassidic Tales

Conclusion

Abbreviations

Selected Bibliography

Index of Authors and Works