Sholem Aleichem: Tevye the Milkman (unabridged)
Read by Neville Jason
Once the American listener gets used to a shtetl dweller with an English accent, Neville Jason makes a fairly decent Tevye...While one could wish that Jason had a wider resource of expression... — More…
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Sholem Aleichem: Tevye Wins a Fortune
- Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios
Tevye Wins a Fortune
Anyway, this is how it happened…
Suddenly, the horse stopped…
Sholem Aleichem: The Bubble Bursts
- Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios
The Bubble Bursts
'Sholem Aleichem,' Reb Tevye
After we'd eaten and said our benedictions…
Sholem Aleichem: Modern Children
- Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios
Modern Children
Now that we're alone, he says to me…
Well, we took a drop or two…
Sholem Aleichem: Hodel
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Hodel
I lift up my eyes, and there on the road ahead of me…
There was only one thing I didn't like about him…
Sholem Aleichem: Chava
- Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios
Chava
Well, to return to my story…
Now, as they say in books…
Sholem Aleichem: Schprintze
- Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios
Schprintze
Well, I began coming to the widow from Ekaterineslav…
Well, Shavous arrived, and how beautiful Shavous in the country can be.
Sholem Aleichem: Tevye goes to Palestine
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Tevye goes to Palestine
Well, I hired the kadish for her, for my wife…
Hmm. Padhatzur? It sounds familiar…
As I rode along my imagination carried me away…
Sholem Aleichem: Now let us forsake the hero
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Now let us forsake the hero
But forgive me Mr. Sholem Aleichem, for straying away…
And I addressed myself to him thus…
I'll tell you the honest truth…
Well, after having supped well on the grief of my youngest child…
Sholem Aleichem: Get Thee Out!
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Get Thee Out!
For when troubles descend on Tevye, they never come singly.
I arrived home from Boiberik one evening…
And while I'm sitting there deep in such thoughts…
And so I persuaded her that we had to go…
Do you think that Tevye's daughter didn't find an answer to this too?