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\nWhen Sholem Aleichem published the sixth of his Tevye stories, Jews in Eastern Europe were in dire straits. Violence against Jews was escalating, and pogroms led to a large, fleeing refugee population. During this time—1906-1907—Jewish...\nWhen Sholem Aleichem published the sixth of his Tevye stories, Jews in Eastern Europe were in dire straits. Violence against Jews was escalating, and pogroms led to a large, fleeing refugee population. During this time—1906-1907—Jewish immigration from Russia to New York reached its peak, largely because of these worsening conditions. However, given the number of wealthy refugees coming through town, Tevye’s business is booming. The story almost seems to have a happy start, despite its bleak setting, when Tevye meets a wealthy widow and her immature son, Arnold, known as Ahronchik. Tevye gives Ahronchik a talking-to about responsibility, one thing leads to another, and soon enough Ahronchik has come over and fallen in love with Tevye’s daughter Shprintze. Though Tevye knows that this match will not sit well with Ahronchik’s upper-crust family, Arnold takes responsibility for bringing his family around to the marriage and claims that all will be well. But all is not well. As Professor Wisse explains in this lecture, Ahronchik and his family are not the sort of Jews Tevye has met before, and they feel no affinity with the poor dairyman. Ahronchik’s uncle accuses Tevye of seeking financial gain by luring Arnold into falling for Shprintze, and rejects the match. Depressed and rejected, Shprintze makes a tragic decision: she drowns herself. In this lecture, Professor Wisse explores various interpretations of this strange and awful tale, examining explanations that range from the historical to the Freudian. DISCUSSION PASSAGE: \n
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46:08
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\nEntrepreneurship Education by TeleTime\n\n
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2017
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sigmund freud, love, suicide
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