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her an escape from his jealous and miserly wife Freydl. Stempenyu sends Rachel an almost illiterate love letter; she agrees to meet him, ostensibly to chide him for writing it but also because she is fascinated by him. However, a vision of her friend Chaya-Etel, who had been married against her will and then died, appears and she flees. She and her husband move to a different town, where they have a child and he becomes a successful businessman; Stempenyu and Freydl remain unhappily married and childless, though she also becomes a successful shopkeeper.
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violinist who seduces a woman in every town he visits. In one town, while playing at a wedding, he is attracted to one of the guests, Rachel, a talented singer. She, discontented with her marriage to the boring Moyshe-Mendl, finds herself drawn in by Stempenyu's music, who likewise finds his love for
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The novel says that name of the title character comes from the village of Stempenyu, from which his father hailed. However there was a real
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to whom the author wrote a letter with the dedication, addressing to Mendele "dear grandfather".
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Index


Sholem Aleichem
Yiddish
Yiddish Language
Sholem Aleichem
klezmer
Stempenyu
Joseph Achron
Boris Thomashefsky
Stempenyu
Mendele Mocher Sforim
klezmer
The Jewish encyclopedia: a descriptive record of the history, religion, literature, and customs of the Jewish people from the earliest times to the present day
hdl
2027/mdp.39015064245429
"The 'Yidishe Paganini': Sholem Aleichem's "Stempenyu", the Music of Yiddish Theatre and the Character of the "Shtetl" Fiddler"
doi
10.1080/02690403.2014.886428
ISSN
0269-0403
JSTOR
43303359
S2CID
162236197
Sholom Aleichem: A Non-Critical Introduction
doi
10.1515/9783110888850-003
ISBN
9783110888850
Klezmer America: Jewishness, ethnicity, modernity

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