Tevye is the compassionate, lovable, Bible-quoting dairyman from Anatevka, & Tevye the Dairyman is a heartwarming & poignant account of life in turn-of-the-century Russia. Through the workaday world of a rural dairyman, his grit, wit, & heart, his daughters` courtships & marriages, & the eventual menace of the pogroms, Sholem Aleichem reveals the fabric of a now-vanished world. Motl is the clear-eyed, spirited, mischievous boy who narrates Motl the Cantor`s Son, a comic novel about his emigration with his family from Russia to America. It is a journey that mirrors a larger exodus, telling the story of the disintegration of traditional Jewish life & the beginning of a new chapter of Jewish history in America.