Reviews for Tropic Days

The average rating for Tropic Days based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-05-21 00:00:00 Robert Lynch A thoroughly enjoyable selection of stories from the author who inspired "Fiddler on the Roof." The stories read as though told verbally, using a conversational style. It was amazing to see how completely the characters accepted the pervasive anti-semitism surrounding their shtetl existence as though it were simply inevitable, incorporating it even into their humor. The selection left me wanting to read more of Sholem Aleichem's works, and wishing that I had a way to experience the conversational style in the original yiddish.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-05-04 00:00:00 Duane Cartmill I read most of this. It's highly uneven from a modern sensibility. All the women are nagging shrews. Many of the stories have a thread of self-hating stereotyping (all Jews are obsessed with money, for example), which was just unbearable. The Tevye stories were probably my favorite, and I was charmed that the language from some of the stories was used verbatim in Fiddler On the Roof. :)