The Railroad Stories
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The Railroad Stories is a collection of Yiddish short stories by Sholem Aleichem that vividly portrays the lives, humor, and hardships of Eastern European Jewish travelers and small-town characters.
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Yiddish literature work
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short story collection ⓘ |
| author | Sholem Aleichem ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Russian Empire ⓘ |
| creator | Sholem Aleichem ⓘ |
| culturalContext |
Ashkenazi Jews
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surface form:
Ashkenazi Jewish culture
late 19th century Eastern Europe ⓘ |
| depicts |
Eastern European Jewish life
ⓘ
Jewish travelers ⓘ small-town Jewish characters ⓘ |
| genre |
Jewish literature
ⓘ
short stories ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced |
Jewish humor in modern literature
ⓘ
later Yiddish prose ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
Jewish identity
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hardship ⓘ humor ⓘ modernization ⓘ poverty ⓘ social satire ⓘ |
| intendedAudience | Yiddish-speaking readers ⓘ |
| language | Yiddish ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Yiddish classic literature ⓘ |
| literarySignificance | classic of Yiddish short fiction ⓘ |
| literaryStyle |
comic realism
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irony ⓘ oral storytelling tone ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| narrativeDevice |
frame narrative
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stories told by fellow passengers ⓘ |
| originalScript | Hebrew alphabet ⓘ |
| partOf | Sholem Aleichem’s body of work ⓘ |
| portrays |
Jewish humor
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everyday speech of common people ⓘ social stratification among Jews ⓘ tension between tradition and modernity ⓘ |
| setting |
Eastern Europe
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railway carriages ⓘ small towns ⓘ |
| subject |
encounters between strangers
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stories within stories ⓘ travel by train ⓘ |
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