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Lesson 6 of 8·Sholem Aleichem’s Tevye the Dairyman

Assault: Materialism

The wealthy Jews of this sixth installment are very different than those we met in the first Tevye story. And when Tevye and his daughter encounter them, the results are unimaginably tragic.

Taught By

Ruth R. Wisse
Ruth R. Wisse is professor emerita of Yiddish and comparative literatures at Harvard and a distinguished senior fellow at Tikvah. Her memoir Free as a Jew: a Personal Memoir of National Self-Liberation, chapters of which appeared in Mosaic in somewhat different form, is out from Wicked Son Press.

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Assault: Materialism

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Ruth R. Wisse

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