Packet 1: Tossup 15

In a story by this author, a drunk cobbler and a pauper ironically nicknamed Rothschild collide on a muddy street, but limp home together to break a religious fast. In another story by this author, a boy claims he can fly to the Arctic Ocean by using magic to attempt to impress his cousin Buzie. A vinegar maker and a priest get stuck on a runaway locomotive in a story by this author set on Hoshana Rabbah. The town of Kasrilveka is the setting of many humorous stories by this author that feature the money-obsessed Menahem-Mendl (“meh-NAH-hem MEN-dull”). This author’s most famous character (10[1])“strikes it rich” and buys a cow in his first appearance, and later laments his seven daughters’ marriages in a series of stories adapted into a Joseph Stein musical. For 10 points, name this Yiddish author who depicted shtetl life with his stories about Tevye the Milkman. ■END■

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