Old Country Tales

Plot

Treasury of stories dealing with people of the old world the people who inhabited the jewish Pale of Settlment in Old Russia and yet they are univerals in appeal. For although they center upon the Jewish experience of the shtetl world into which Aleichem was born, the encompass the entire range of human experience, hilarity, laughter, drama, wit, poignancy, pathos, lyricism, delight, fear, warmth of humanity.