The famous cycle of stories “Notes of a Traveling Salesman” and the story “Menachem Mendel” are rightly considered among the best creations of Sholom Aleichem. Full of optimism and inexhaustible humor, these stories are read today with no less interest than a hundred years ago. Contents Notes of a Traveling Salesman TO THE READERS (translator: L. Yudkevich) Competitors (Passach-Mendal Shambadal) The happiest man in Kodna (translator: N. Brook) Baranovichi Station (translator: L. Yudkevich) Accepted (translator: Peisakh-Mendal Shambadal) The Man from Buenos Aires (translator: B. Chernyak) The Graves of Ancestors (translator: N. Bruk) Staggering Idle (translator: L. Yudkevich) Miracle in the Seventh Day of Tabernacles (translator: L. Yudkevich) There would be a wedding, but there was no music (translator: L. Yudkevich) Taleskotn (translator: L. Yudkevich) Sixty-six (translator: I. Masyukov) Gymnasium (Passach-Mendal Shambadal) From conscription (Passach-Mendal Shambadal) You can’t be kind! (Pesakh-Mendal Shambadal) Burned out (Passach-Mendal Shambadal) Loser (translator: Ya. Taits) Misfortune is destined (translator: M. Leshchinskaya) If you cut it, bite it! (translator: L. Yudkevich) Third class (translator: L. Yudkevich) Menachem-Mendl (Passach-Mendal Shambadal)