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\nCONCLUSION: LEKH-LEKHO Five years after the publication of “Tevye Leaves for the Land of Israel,” the situation of Russia’s Jews was continuing to worsen. On top of widespread pogroms, they were being expelled from many Russian towns,...\nCONCLUSION: LEKH-LEKHO Five years after the publication of “Tevye Leaves for the Land of Israel,” the situation of Russia’s Jews was continuing to worsen. On top of widespread pogroms, they were being expelled from many Russian towns, and the infamous blood libel had made a reappearance in the form of the 1913 trial of Menahem Mendel Beilis. In “Lekh-Lekho,” the last of Sholem Aleichem’s Tevye stories, Tevye finds himself in similarly dismal circumstances. Motl the tailor has died of tuberculosis, forcing Tevye to abandon his journey to Palestine in order to return home and take care of his widowed daughter and her children. Meanwhile, Podhotzur has fallen on hard times, and he and Beilke have been forced to move to America and work in a factory. In this last lecture, Professor Wisse looks at the stubbornly hopeful and redemptive side of Tevye. Refusing to be defeated even as his home is ransacked and he is expelled from his village, an elderly Tevye still recites the mangled Bible quotations and Yiddish idioms he always has, and refuses to lose hope. Perhaps the brightest ray of hope in this otherwise tragic ending is the return of Chava, who leaves her husband and rejoins Tevye’s family in its bleakest moment. This lecture explores how Tevye’s forgiveness of Chava and uplifting outlook as he is expelled from his village affect his status as the quintessential Jewish character. As Tevye puts it, even after all he and the Jewish people have been through, “the old God of Israel still lives!”\n
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2017
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