Stempenyu

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Stempenyu is a Yiddish novel by Sholem Aleichem that portrays the life and romantic entanglements of a charismatic klezmer violinist in a Jewish shtetl.

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Stempenyu the fiddler 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Yiddish-language literary work
novel
adaptedAs film
theatrical play
author Sholem Aleichem
countryOfOrigin Russian Empire
depicts Jewish folk culture
romantic relationships
shtetl life
genre Jewish literature
novel
hasCharacter Friedl
surface form: Freydl

Rokhele
Stempenyu’s wife
hasTitleCharacter Stempenyu self-linksurface differs
surface form: Stempenyu the fiddler
influenced later Yiddish literature
language Yiddish
literaryMovement Yiddish realism
mainCharacter Stempenyu self-link
narrativePerspective third-person narration
partOf Sholem Aleichem’s body of work
portrays itinerant Jewish musicians
klezmer tradition
protagonistOccupation klezmer violinist
setting Jewish shtetl
theme art and artistry
love
marriage
temptation
tradition versus desire

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Stempenyu hasTitleCharacter Stempenyu self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Stempenyu the fiddler
Stempenyu mainCharacter Stempenyu self-link
Sholem Aleichem notableWork Stempenyu
Sholem Rabinovich notableWork Stempenyu
Sholom Aleichem notableWork Stempenyu