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\nIn 1909, after returning from a stay in America, Sholem Aleichem released the penultimate chapter of the Tevye narrative: “Tevye Leaves for the Land of Israel.” This story tells the tale of Beilke, Tevye’s youngest daughter, and upends...\nIn 1909, after returning from a stay in America, Sholem Aleichem released the penultimate chapter of the Tevye narrative: “Tevye Leaves for the Land of Israel.” This story tells the tale of Beilke, Tevye’s youngest daughter, and upends many of the tropes we have come to expect. With her mother dead and her father in need of support, Beilke marries not for love, but for the status and wealth that Tevye once thought he craved. However, when he visits his new son-in-law’s home, he finds that wealth might not bring him or his daughter all for which he had hoped. Podhotzur, a social climber, is embarrassed by Tevye’s low social status, and asks him to leave town. Tevye refuses to go to America, and so instead he heads for the holy land, his travel funded by his son-in-law. In this lecture, Professor Wisse explores the mixed results of the sort of marriage Tevye had thought he wanted for his daughters. Beilke is treated well by Podhotzur, and he even goes out of his way to use his wealth and status to help her family—but he is embarrassed by her origins and makes up new ones. Podhotzur is successful in business, but also ignorant of tradition: he has never opened a Talmud. He represents, as Professor Wisse points out, the worst aspects of Jewishness in the New World Sholem Aleichem encountered in America.\n
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2017
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