Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor's Son
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Tevye is the compassionate, lovable, Bible-quoting dairyman from Anatevka, and Tevye the Dairyman is a heartwarming and poignant account of life in turn-of-the-century Russia. Through the workaday world of a rural dairyman, his grit, wit, and heart, his daughters' courtships and marriages, and the eventual menace of the pogroms, Sholem…
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1 author picked Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor's Son as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
No understanding of Jewish culture is complete without a reading of the work of Sholem Aleichman, which means peace be with you, the pen name of Sholem Rabinovitch, perhaps the best-known author in Yiddish literature.
He wrote many stories of shtetl life and is best known for his tales of Tevye the milkman and his daughters, which was the inspiration for the musical Fiddler on the Roof.
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