📖 Tevye the Dairyman & Motl the Cantor's Son 📚

As a big fan of Fiddler on the Roof, I decided I should read the original Tevye stories. First published in 1894, Tevye 'tells' Aleichem the tales of his family, focusing on six of his seven daughters, Tzeitel, Chava, Hodel, Shprintze, Taybele, and Bielke. I was surprised by how different these tales proved to be from musical.
But the highlight here is the delightful adventures of the 'orphan' Motl in Aleichem's unfinished novel Motl and the Cantor's Son. These tales take us on the journey from poverty in the Shtetl, across Europe to the promise land of America. Motls' take on life is endearing and funny. I am amazed that these stories have never made it to film!

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Rahel Szalit-Marcus (1888-1942) Jewish artist, illustrator born in Lithuania, then part of Russian. She was active in Berlin during the Weimar Republic and in Paris in the 1930s hanging out at well known cafés frequented by artists and intellectuals. She was best known for her illustrations of East European Jewish subjects

In 1942, Szalit-Marcus was arrested in the Vel d'Hiv Roundup, and she was deported to Auschwitz where she was murdered. Her Paris studio was ransacked, and many of her works destroyed

Shown here are lithographic illustrations from Sholem Aleichem’s unfinished novel Motl, the Cantor’s Son, 1922

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Rahel Szalit-Marcus (1888-1942) Jewish artist, illustrator born in Lithuania, then part of Russian. She was active in Berlin during the Weimar Republic and in Paris in the 1930s hanging out at well known cafés frequented by artists and intellectuals. She was best known for her illustrations of East European Jewish subjects

In 1942, Szalit-Marcus was arrested in the Vel d'Hiv Roundup, and she was deported to Auschwitz where she was murdered. Her Paris studio was ransacked, and many of her works destroyed

Shown here with 2 self portraits

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