Between Two Worlds Film Screening- Tevye (in Yiddish with English subtitles)

Tevya is a 1939 American Yiddish film, based on author Sholem Aleichem's stock character Tevye the Dairyman. It was the first non-English language picture selected for preservation by the National Film Registry

Tevye is a dairyman in the Russian Ukraine early in the 20th century. He lives in a cabin outside Boyberik with his wife Goldie, his widowed daughter Tseytl, her two children, and his younger daughter, the unmarried Khave. Khave is being courted by Fedya, a Christian, the son of a local government official. Tevye warns Khave against romance and marriage outside her faith, but Fedya is persuasive too. What will Khave decide, how will Tevye react, and when the Tsar initiates a pogrom, will Tevye's friends come to his defense? Can the stubborn Tevye reconcile his heart and tradition?

93 minutes

This presentation is part of the Yiddish Book Centers Public Libraries Program, a

partnership with the American Library Association. Made possible by the Lilly Endowment, Inc.