Shir ha-shirim

roman neʻurim be-arbaʻah peraḳim

by Sholem Aleichem

1947 131 pages yid

A boy's tender love for the daughter of his brother, a girl his age. Shimek's shyness is so acute he can only communicate his heart by noting the ways of nature and quoting from the biblical "Song of Songs." First English translation of an illustrated 1910 novel evoking the lost world of Eastern Eur…