Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Thirty-Nine: Winds of War

Posted on: May 17th, 2013

The next chapter of the award-winning novel.

Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Thirty-Eight: A Love Song for Hodel

Posted on: May 9th, 2013

The next chapter of the award-winning novel.

Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Thirty-Seven: A Son at Last!

Posted on: May 1st, 2013

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Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Thirty-Six: Tevye the Builder

Posted on: April 23rd, 2013

The next chapter of the award-winning novel.

Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Thirty-Five: A Thousand Tevyes

Posted on: April 14th, 2013

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Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Thirty-Four: Fear No Evil

Posted on: April 10th, 2013

The next chapter of the award-winning novel.

Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Thirty-Three: The Settlers Draw Lots

Posted on: March 31st, 2013

The next chapter of the award-winning novel.

Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Thirty-Two: A Letter From America

Posted on: March 28th, 2013

          One late afternoon when Tevye returned to his tent after a back-breaking day in the winery, a letter was waiting from Baylke. Sure enough, she had been in touch with Golda’s distant cousin in Chicago, and he had forwarded Tevye’s letter to her in New York. She had been thrilled [...]

Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Thirty-One: Hevedke the Jew

Posted on: March 19th, 2013

The next chapter of the award-winning novel.

Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Thirty: Waters of Eden

Posted on: March 12th, 2013

What was a man, Tevye thought, that one moment he could be so filled with power and seemingly invincible force, and the next moment a motionless pile of flesh?

Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Plague

Posted on: March 5th, 2013

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Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Twenty-Eight: Waiting for the Baron

Posted on: February 26th, 2013

When word arrived that Baron Edmond Rothschild was coming for a visit, with none other than the famous Dr. Chaim Weizmann, the colony turned into a frantic beehive of activity.

Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Twenty-Seven: Hodel Leaves Perchik

Posted on: February 18th, 2013

Overnight, Tevye's new cottage became a warm, haimisher home...

Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Twenty-Six: Tevye Takes a Wife

Posted on: February 11th, 2013

  Both of Elisha’s two grown daughters were golden-skinned, beautiful, devoutly religious, and nearly half Tevye’s age. The eldest daughter, Carmel, was naturally the first choice of the parents, but Elisha told Tevye he could marry whomever he picked. Embarrassed by the whole distressing business, and wanting the matter to be concluded as discreetly as [...]

Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Twenty-Five: Tevye Cures the Muktar’s Daughter

Posted on: February 4th, 2013

     On the arranged date, the Jews set out to survey the land which their Arab neighbors wanted to sell. The Muktar Abdulla graciously sent them a guide who showed them the way through the mountains to his village. Traveling on horseback, the journey up and down the hillsides and valleys took them two [...]

Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Twenty-Four: Morasha

Posted on: January 28th, 2013

The Jewish Colony Association had chosen the mountainous location not for its suitability as farmland, but because of its price. When more and more Jews began immigrating to Palestine, the Turkish government began doubling and tripling the cost of the land until parcels were often ten times more expensive than farmland in Europe. The Baron [...]

Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Twenty-Three: A New Kind of Jew

Posted on: January 21st, 2013

All of Tevye’s life, it seemed like he was always saying good-bye. Back in the old country, what now seemed like lifetimes ago, his Hodel had left him for Perchik. Then Hava had run off with her gentile, and Shprintza had drowned. Then the heart and soul of his being, his devoted wife, Golda, had [...]

Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Twenty-Two: A Visit to the Yeshiva

Posted on: January 15th, 2013

 Not only was Tevye’s family going to be together, they were going to be rich! The Baron’s gift of 5000 francs would make them the new aristocrats of Palestine. But Tevye’s daydreaming didn’t last long. When he heard that Nachman was planning on returning the money, Tevye nearly fell out of the wagon.      “I [...]

Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Twenty-One: Reunion

Posted on: December 2nd, 2012

The journey from Zichron Yaacov to Jaffa took almost three days. For Tevye, it was a chance to see another part of the Land of Israel, the sandy, swamp-infested coastline bordering the Mediterranean Sea. Most of the landscape was barren, with only an occasional settlement along the way. The colonies of Hadera, Kfar Saba, and [...]

Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Twenty: Zichron Ya’acov

Posted on: November 16th, 2012

With the birth of Hodel's baby, the time had come for Tevye to journey onward. Family was a matter of tantamount importance, but a Jew had an even higher allegiance to God. Had not the Almighty warned that life in the Holy Land must be lived according to the commandments of the Torah? That meant observing the laws of the Sabbath and the holidays, eating kosher food, donning tallit and tefillin, guarding the treasures of marital purity, and observing all of the six-hundred and thirteen commandments – most of which were flagrantly ignored by the young pioneers on the kibbutz.