# Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor's Son

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- Authors: [Sholem Aleichem](https://www.bookquiver.com/sholem-aleichem)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2009-05-28

## Description

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 Aleichem reveals the fabric of a now-vanished world. Motl is the clear-eyed, spirited, mischievous boy who narrates Motl the Cantor's Son , a comic novel about his emigration with his family from Russia to America. It is a journey that mirrors a larger exodus, telling the story of the disintegration of traditional Jewish life and the beginning of a new chapter of Jewish history in America.

## Editions

### Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor's Son

- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4310-560-2
- Pages: 320
- Published: 2009-05-28
- Language: en_GB