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bookfreak28's review against another edition
4.0
I love how proud the author is in his characters. Rochalle is good and rewarded. Stempenyu is bad and get punished. Duty and promises are put before personal feelings.
vsobaka05's review against another edition
5.0
I'm not positive what made me like this book so much (maybe the angsty romance), but it really hooked me. It's quite funny, but also has some emotional moments that have a lot of depth to them. I probably wouldn't have read this if it wasn't for class, but I'm very happy that I did.
brucefarrar's review
4.0
The comic tale of the love of the fickle, but talented fiddler Stempenyu for the beautiful Rochalle, the wife of Moshe-Mendel, the son of a wealthy merchant, and the angst that it caused them. Aleichem’s parody of a romantically tragic love tale is set in late nineteenth century Ukraine, then a part of the Russian Empire, among its Jewish inhabitants. It’s filled with hilariously sarcastic spats among the characters, and the sardonic commentary of their neighbors and in-laws, along with a few by author himself.
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