Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Forty-One: War
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Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Thirty: Waters of Eden
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
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Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Twenty-Seven: Hodel Leaves Perchik
Overnight, Tevye's new cottage became a warm, haimisher home...
Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Seventeen: The Milkman’s Daughter
Tevye decided to stay in Shoshana until the birth of Hodel's baby, which was only a month away. He forbade Bat Sheva to speak...
Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter One: Anatevka
Nemerov, the district Police Commissioner, reared his horse in the air. "Three days," he warned. "The Jews of Anatevka have three days to clear out of the area." It didn't matter that the Jews had lived in Anatevka long before the Russians. The Police Commissioner didn't care that Tevye's great-grandfather, may his memory be a blessing, had cleared the forest by the lake and built the first house in the region. It didn't matter to the Czar and his soldiers that for as long as anyone could remember, the Jews had dutifully paid the taxes which had laden the Czar's table with food, while the pantries of the Jews remained bare.
Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Thirty-Nine: Winds of War
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Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Twenty-Five: Tevye Cures the Muktar’s Daughter
On the arranged date, the Jews set out to survey the land which their Arab neighbors wanted to sell. The Muktar Abdulla...
Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Thirty-Four: Fear No Evil
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Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Twenty-Three: A New Kind of Jew
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...
Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Nine: Mazal Tov!
"Didn't I tell you that everything God does works out for the best?" Tevye said to Nachman as everyone gathered excitedly around the coffin on the beach. "If the Turks had let us disembark in Jaffa, I would never have seen my Golda wash up on shore."
Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Thirty-Eight: A Love Song for Hodel
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Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter 15: Guardian of Israel
As a sign of his grief over Tzeitl, Tevye tore his shirt and sat on a low stool in Hodel's house in the traditional custom of mourners. He maintained a stalwart expression to disguise the hole he felt in his heart. His strength came from Golda. She appeared to him in a dream and told him not to worry.
Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Twenty-Four: Morasha
The Jewish Colony Association had chosen the mountainous location not for its suitability as farmland, but because of its price. When more and more...
Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Twenty-One: Reunion
The journey from Zichron Yaacov to Jaffa took almost three days. For Tevye, it was a chance to see another part of the Land...
Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter 12: Hodel
It was impossible to tell which thought gave Tevye more happiness. The thought of stepping foot in Jerusalem, or the thought of seeing his Hodel again. True, Hodel was his own flesh and blood. She was like a little piece of his Golda.
Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Twenty: Zichron Ya’acov
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.
Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Eight: The Holy Land
Who knew what new disasters would arise on the way to Alexandria, Tevye thought? Eretz Yisrael was so close, they could almost reach out and touch it. Jews were already pushing and shoving to climb down the ladder of the ship. They jumped into the small rowboats as if the chance might never come again.
Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Five: A Husband For Ruchel
When Tevye walked back to his wagon, Ruchel was missing. Tzeitl reported that a young man from the village had unharnessed Tevye's horse and taken it to the barn for a feeding. Apparently, he had taken Ruchel with him. Tevye's eyebrows rose in surprise. Of all of his daughters, Ruchel most resembled his Golda.
Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Ten: Rabbi Kook
"No Jew is an atheist," Rabbi Kook answered. "No matter how confused our young people are with foreign ideas and creeds, the Jewish soul is always pure. Sometimes our eyes are blind and our ears are deaf, but our inner souls long for our God and our Torah. We carry the flame of our heritage eternally within our hearts. Nothing can extinguish it, not even two-thousand years of darkness and exile.
Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Thirty-One: Hevedke the Jew
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Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Seven: ‘Get Thee Forth to the Land’
"Oy Golda, Oy Golda," Tevya moaned. "Is this to be your reward? To be thrown to the fish? To have your bones scattered to the ends of the seas? Without any dry earth to warm you, or a flower to grow over your head? Is this to be your reward for being Tevye's wife for twenty-eight years and for raising his seven daughters?"
Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Thirty-Five: A Thousand Tevyes
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Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Twenty-Two: A Visit to the Yeshiva
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...
Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Twenty-Eight: Waiting for the Baron
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 Three: Off to the Promised Land
Tevye saw him when they reached the outskirts of the village. At first he wasn't sure, but when he saw Hava keep turning her head, his suspicions proved true. It was Hevedke Galagan, the Russian who had stolen his daughter, the gentile she was supposed to have left – he was following the procession of Jews as they made their way down the bumpy dirt road.
Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Nineteen: A Trail of Tomatoes
The indefatigable woodchopper, Goliath, provided the posts and slats for the fence which the settlers began erecting around the kibbutz. Ben Zion adamantly opposed the idea, claiming a fence would turn the settlement into a ghetto and curtail any further expansion.
Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Eighteen: Peace in the Middle East
The emergency bell clanged throughout the valley of the Shoshana kibbutz. Workers who were building the first stone edifice on the settlement put down their chisels and masonry tools. Field hands set aside their scythes and their sickles and started back toward the compound of mud and wood dwellings. Within minutes, all of the settlers sat crowded together on the benches in the dining hall. With great indignation, Ben Zion related how the Arabs had ambushed them at the well and stolen his horse and two rifles. He demanded that a small force be organized immediately and set off in retaliation.
Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Forty: Locusts
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Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter 13: Tzeitl’s Last Wish
"What are we going to eat?" Shmuelik asked Tevye as they changed into their Sabbath clothing.
Tevye did not understand the question. "What do you...