Yosele Solovey

Yosele Solovey is a 1886 Yiddish novel by Sholem Aleichem, the bildungsroman of a young boy with a beautiful voice, which earned him the nicklame "solovey", meaning "nightingale" in Russian. It was translated into English for the first time by Aliza Shevrin in 1985, under the title The Nightingale. In the end, when Yosele learns about the marriage of Esther, he becomes a madman. However the three novels have a significant focus on the society, rather than on the heroes and includes significant critique of the society.