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Here she is, this Jewish beauty!

When you catch a glimpse of her, your heart misses a beat.

Hey you, beautiful Jewish girl! My heart burns for you.

- Mine too!

Certainly not! You fat idiot!

You have no heart, and you don't know what love is!

There you go!

Fedya!

Fedya, listen. My mother is not far: she could see us!

What are you afraid of, my beloved, my dearest?

When you're deeply in love, you must not be shy!

Well, enough with this duck feeding, my child! My sweetheart.

I have brought you a gift.

Gorky!

Maxim Gorky!

You know, Fedya, you look a lot like Gorky!

My darling, you're so beautiful...

As the wise men say, in the sky are angels, angels that are full of grace.

You've learnt so well how to talk Fedya! Exactly like in the novels...

Why are you laughing a bit strangely today, darling?

I have joy in my heart, so I'm laughing.

When the sun is shining, we can't be gloomy!

With me, you will never feel gloomy,

because you are my shining sun, my whole life,

- for you, I'm ready... - "To defy flames and water"

as it is written in the books!

Come on, my sweetheart !

For all this time!...

But isn't it mummy?

Mummy! Mummy!

Who's there? Who is it?!

May the plague take me!

Zeitel! My daughter!

Zeitel darling! I didn't know you were coming,

But I wished for happiness!

As true as I dreamt you would be here,

I deserve to hear the bells when the Messiah comes!

Hey, Shloymele! Perele!

My dear grandchildren!

So you came to visit Grandma?

But don't stay standing there! You must be hungry!

Come on children, come on! What a joyful visit!

I so want to see Daddy again! Where is he today?

He's in Boiberik with the dairies, He should be back soon.

How is your husband?

How do you want him to be? He's coughing!

Coughing? There's a remedy against coughing!

Sage and plum liqueur, boiled in sour milk.

And at night, wrap a wool sock around his neck.

A great recipe! Come to the table my children, lunch is served!

So, how long are we going to do Shabbat with you?

Gee up!

Gee up!

Well I never..

Gee up!

Are you becoming lazy with age?

He turns a deaf ear...

Well I never! How is this going to end?

Don't abandon me in my old age! Playing the fool in your old age?

So what! Stubborn!

Oh Lord! Lord, my God!

What is going to happen? So you won't obey?

You won't obey?

But this will bring you to your senses. So you're waiting for the stick?

Well, you will have deserved your Heaven.

Take that! Take that! This is for your life here below!

What are we going to do? We're going to lose ourselves!

What can we do?

Oh! Here comes a can!

He's coming! He's approaching!

Hey Jewish friend!

Come here! Come here!

Over here! Over here!

Dear Jewish friend! Dear cousin! Do you know the way to Boiberik?

Don't be scared! We are not demons, God forbid!

Maybe is this gentleman Tevya the milkman, who delivers milk to the villas?

Really?! If you please, master Tevya

we are ladies from Kiev.

We live in a villa nearby,

we went out for a short time to have a walk,

and we got lost!

What is the way to Boiberik?

You are looking for the way to Boiberik?... To Boiberik?

Its that path over there, through that path straight on. Do you see?

You will reach Boiberik.

Even if you didn't want to, you would inevitably reach Boiberik!

It's not far! In all... 2 or 3 miles.

2 or 3 miles?!

Woe is me!

We will be there at midnight! And I haven't eaten a thing today!

Maybe you could bring us back home? We will pay you for the trouble...

You should also ask him! He's an unpredictable companion.

Use your whip!

He's as afraid of the whip as I'm afraid of poverty...

Well, never mind. Climb into the cart!

Maybe he'll have more consideration for you!

Come on, climb!

Help me! Help me!

Eat my children, for your good health.

Zeitel, please help yourself. You're at your mummy's!

Thank you Mum my!

I'm wailing for Daddy to come home.

How is Chava?

You're so fond of her, your dear sister...

God forbid, did something happen to Chava?

Oh yes! Indeed!

Better not to ask...

The non-Jewish Fedya Galagan, do you know him?

- Yes I do, and? - Well, she's all smiles with him.

- What do you mean? - Well...

I mean they've started to read books together!

For hours, they stay in front of the door.

And they talk, talk, talk... Oh, good Lord!

Why talk so much!

I've heard it with my own ears,

as true as I wish happiness to my Jewish brothers!

And I saw it with my own eyes,

as true as I wish to see our Mother Rachel's Tomb:

They... Greated each other!

And that's all?

What would you have wanted? That they hug and kiss?

And he's coughing, and he's turning around. A thin rain is falling.

But maybe a girl, in her house, would welcome me...

It's Chava! Mummy, don't tell her anything!

Perele! Shloymele! Your aunt Chava!

But maybe a girl, in her house, would welcome me...

But maybe a girl would come with me...

Chava, my sister!

- Zeitel! - Chava!

- Well, I never! You've grown into such a beauty! - A beauty, really?

Aunt Chavah!

- Shloimele! - Perele!

How come you are here Zeitel!

She missed her mummy, so she hired a non-Jewish coachman, and here she is!

Mummy dreamt that the cow would calve and that the cat would have kittens...

And here you are!

Oh, laughing at everybody like that!

She's the spitting image of her father!

Well!And here he comes! His Majesty the Emperor, your father!

Don't say anything! Don't say anything.

Oh, father dear!

Oh yes your father, in person and in majesty!

As the verse says: "Here it is!"

And Rashi comments: It's like a fake coin...

So, how is my Zeitel then? How is your husband?

He contents him self with Torah and serving God with his needle and thread.

And he cuts, forgive me, underpants!

And what about the children then? Well?!

Grandpa! Grandpa!

Oh my dear little ones!

Oh, my God! My God!

How is my little one?!

Shloimele! Here you are grandson! My dear boy! My darling grandchildren!

I'm so pleased to see you!

And for you Chavahle, I've brought a present!

- A little book, here it is... - A little novel!

Oh, those little books, those silly little book! Why does he buy those books?

Dear wife, we've talked about this. You won't meddle in my business.

As said in the chapter:

“ Sheli, shelokh shelokh, sheli. “

What is mine is yours, and what is yours, is mine!

Alright! Let's have lunch now. Come to lunch, come on.

You must be hungry! I hope you enjoy my meal.

You're right, wife. As written in the Maxims;

'Without floor, no time for study. If we eat nails, we will get sick."

Come on, take the children, don't just stand there.

Don't worry children,

we're going to eat right now.

So, Chavah darling, what do they preach in your secular books?

Father, we've already agreed, that you wouldn't meddle in my business.

As the Maxim says: What is mine is yours...

what is yours... is yours!

You recited it like a fully uneducated girl.

But I think that regarding grammar, you are more at ease.

Nobody should meddle in other people's business.

Just imagine if I meddled in Mummy's Borsch!

What would she say to me?

Will that be all? Mister school teacher!

The milk for the borcht is not even ready, and he am uses me with his songs!

Our Sages say: "The ignorant has seven flaws."

But the Jewish woman has nine levels of chattering!

We're talking about novels, then about milk soup!

Alright, alright, now eat!

May the plague suffocate our enemies!

Here comes the priest again!

Yes, it's the priest. In majesty and in person.

Well! What a visit!

Good day, venerated Father!

Hello to you, Tevya!

What business does he have with the priest?

Seems to me he's coming around here a bit too often...

Well, venerated father! What a visit!

Such an honour venerated Father! How are you?

You'll have a pinch of tobacco of course?

You like my tobacco...

I'm going to town, and I fell like checking

how things were at my friend's Tevya, in his hamlet.

It's nice here; very nice!

Come on, little Father, let's relax and drink a glass of sour milk.

Oh, what an honour! Slowly, slowly.

He's buddy-buddy with the Priest...

- You are welcome, really! - Thank you!

There are beautiful girls at your house Tevya!

But they must pay for the sins of their ancestors.

They get married to idiots,

to incompetent fools..

They cut the pretty plaits they had

and they become withered for this world as for the other.

Let me tell you, little Father.

For this world, it's not really serious; as for your other world, I'm not really keen on it either.

You'd rather tell me something new, some new things!

I have so many new things for you Tevya!

So many new things!

Oh yes, I'd gladly hear new things!

All this chit-chat, what do you make of it?

But Mummy...

Goldie! See what a distinguished visitor I'm bringing you !

See?An unexpected visit!

Greetings to you, Miss!

Greetings to you!

Have a seat, little Father!

Make yourself comfortable.

Here it is... Here it is...

Here, little Father. Some fresh sour milk, and cool too.

No, thank you.

Well, tell me little Father what's new. So, something new?

Go ahead.

You want some news, I will tell you some news.

You know that Mendel Verevivke, has a daughter.

Any news?!

Mendel Verevivke has a daughter...

Mendel Verevivke has a daughter!

Mendel Verevivke unfortunately has,

and I don'! wish that to any Jew, seven daughters who have to marry!

But daughters, as said in the Scripture: "the boys ran to"

the little girls have grown up,

the little girls follow their nature:

by day, they eat and by night, they grow up.

So, Mendel Verevivke's daughter

fell in love with Anton, the forester's son.

And he's marrying her under no conditions.

Oh, what a misfortune for her mother!

You won't go back empty-handed little Father...

You can catch some small fish, in our muddy pond.

As the Maxim says: "Where there is no man..

If there is no fish, we will eat silt.

There's nothing to laugh about, Tevel,

it's a serious issue.

And now, the girl has joined our domain.

What does it mean, into your domain?

And yet you are a sensible Jew, Tevel.

What would happen if one of your daughters, by chance,

fell in love with one of ours

and wanted to marry him?

I assume you want to know my answer?

I will answer with clear dry words.

First conclusion:

If, God forbid, such a thing should happen, one of two things would happen:

either I wouldn't survive or my child had beiier die,

or we had both better die a bad death.

As it is written:

My being should die with the Philistines

And even if Tevye had 10 daughters, all 10 of them,

would pay the price of their sin.

Khavele, woe to me!

Oh, Mother! Help!

Little Father!..

Dad! She's fainting!

Oh, woe is me! Bring some water!

Khavele! Woe is me!

My daughter! Are you feeling better?

- I feel better... - I feel better.

Didn't I say she was feeling better...

I'm dealing with women. Those ladies, such clots, no salvation for them!

They made such a racket: “Khave, help, save her!”

What is it then, a fire, so that you cry for help?

Oh,you women!

There is a reason why King Solomon was wary of them.

Are you starting to faint again?

Slow-lg... Come that way... You will go home.

You must lie for a moment. You must rest. Oh Lord!

“She's fainting!” “Help! Help!”

Grandpa, take us to Boiberik!

Grandpa, I want to go to Boiberik!

You want to go to Boiberik, my dear little princess?

To Boiberik! Well! Let's go!

Let's climb in, let's climb in! Let's go! Here!

What are you looking for? Why are you following me?

Khave... I'm only visiting But I see everything!

I understand everything that is going on here!

And mother, understands too!

And if Dad does, God forbid, ll will be terrible!

What do you want from me?

Why are you torturing me?

Listen to me, Khave!

We are sisters, from the same parents.

But if such a thing God forbid, happened to you...

I would not live through it!

Why should there be a difference between people?

And also between all the different beliefs?

Ill-intentioned people invented these differences between men,

but we must rise above all beliefs.

To me, you are my belief.

When I don'! see you, I miss you.

But when I see you again...

I feel like ending everything between us and running away from you!

How will my mother survive our marriage?

You worry more about your father than me...

There's no father like him, Fedya...

I am lost...

Lost...

Why lost, my dove?

Nobody loves you as much as I do!

My darling, my dear soul, we must be strong!

Today I went to see Father Alexei

and I promised him that tomorrow, we would go and see him together.

- No! - My darling!

Fedya, throw me into the river, for me to drown

and put an end to all this!

My poor scared dove!

I brought you the other book by Gorky I promised to give you.

- Thank you! - My darling!

Let's go take a walk in the forest.

All day I was anxious to see you again...

- It's already late! - But come on, my sweetheart!

Fedya, My father is coming out of the barn!

Go, faster!

- Khavele? - Yes, Dad!

Who just jumped from the front steps?

I think, I could swear that it was a person...

Yes, a person.

A person?

If I'm not mistaken, it was Fedye Galagan,

as true as I'm alive!

Was he leaving here?

Yes, he was..

And why did he come, this non-Jewish boy?

For nothing, to talk, chat...

He brought me a novel.

A novel?

He is already bringing you novels!

Show me this!

Dear Khave, I've wanted to talk to you for a while.

But today, I see I have to do it.

Sit down!

He brings you novels? Let's see!

You know, we must read books.

To know everything that happens in the world:

in heaven as on earth.

But there is something I don’t understand: For books, you can meet at home.

Why does he have to jump the front steps Like a non-Jewish in a sukkah?

Maybe it is one of those books you have to read secretly?

No, not at all, it's an authorised book.

It's by Gorky.

Gorke?

Who is that Gorke?

A writer, a Russian writer.

The greatest after Tolstoy!

Who?

Count Tolstoy, whose portrait is hanging in my room.

Oh, Tolstoy?

Isn't it that famous Tolstoy Who said that...

when you get slapped on one cheek,

you say: “Great, take care!”,

then turn the other cheek?

Oh yes, It's that famous Tolstoy.

And him, what does he say, this Maxim what's his name, Gorke?

Gorky is a great man, Father!

A common man, but a great man!

Here's his photo!

That's him?

Oh dear, Such a big head!

But I feel like I know him:

I'd swear I have seen him somewhere before!

Where would you have met him?

Where? I don'! remember exactly,

but, unless I'm mistaken I either saw him at the station, carrying bags,

or in the forest, squaring off wood.

But there is something I don’t understand:

How come one of Tevya's daughters spends time with such a lout?

Why do you say that, Father? Do you know him?

Who is he? One of Rabbi Asher's grandsons?

No less! Master Fedya, Son of Master Mikita Galagan!

Such a mujik, always ready to pick a fight, that Mikita,

who comes from... high-born people!

His grandfather Terentshe, may he rest in peace,

was a notorious drunkard, a braggart and an innkeeper.

He used to beat up his wife three times a week.

As for his great-grandfather, it's not to be repeated,

Kolymov, he raised pigs

and peeled potatoes! What a nice lineage!

What a nice lineage!

But you're one to say that there's only one God in Heaven,

for all men.

And when it must be applied...

If we have to reconsider things, you are right,

in the eyes of God, all men are equal.

"Every Jew will have his share of the future world."

That's to say: Jews and Gentiles... all equal!

You know, my daughter, our holy Doctrine ordered us to love all men,

from all people.

But Amalek, is the people that did us wrong,

we must always remember!

Do you know that?

What do you mean?

I mean, that the Elder, the Mayor and all our good friends,

who like us so much,

if they gel the chance to rejoice,

I mean: a pogrom,

they wouldn't hesitate to throw stones at us too...

That's what I wanted to say.

I don’t believe that!

No more than I believe the rest...

Well...

Go to sleep.

- Good night! - Good night!

Yes, Dad?

How would it be, of for example you should, God forbid,

commit a deed...

...that could lead your father and your mother

to their grave?

Would you commit that deed?

Answer me... Would you do it?

No, Dad!

No...

You wouldn't?

In that case, there was no need to talk about it, you little fool!

In that case, there's nothing to say

We said nothing at all.

I asked you; and you, you answered.

As it is written: He forgot about it

and Rashi explained: he didn't want to forget, but he still did.

It's my Khavele, the same Khavele, as always,

Oh, take care!

Where are you now, my daughter? You are a young lady!

Golde! You have to hear that...

Look, my dear soul.

The whole village has gathered and all are rejoicing in our wedding!

Hey, my friends!

I don'! see anyone...

Even if I open my eyes, anyway, it will be useless.

And maybe have they hidden her up there, in the garret?

Oh, what nice things I'm experiencing In my old age...

Tevye, I hope you know how to talk to him...

My heart is shuddering,

If you were going to throw one of your verses at him, it could anger him.

Very gently, Tevya, very gently.

Make sure not to shout...

Not to shout?

What should I do? Stan dancing?

I've been deprived of the best, the most beautiful thing I own,

So what should I do? And should I remain silent?

I should remain silent?

Please...

Batyoushka, venerated Father, people have come to see you,

Tevel!

A visit!

A special visit!

You came all the way, let's have some tea.

Antotshya,

bring the samovar on the porch!

Are you going to sit and drink tea with him?

A visit!

A special visit!

Come to the table, we're going to have some tea.

Sit down, Tevel!

Sit down, his wife!

Make yourself comfortable, Tevel,

as you would at your own house.

In a minute, we're going to have some tea.

No, venerated Father,

I didn't come to spend time with you, nor drink tea.

I just came to ask you a few questions

so that you answer me frankly and without trickery

Do you remember the parable of the poor little lamb

that the powerful man had stolen?

I remember...

Yes, you do rem ember!

I know that here in your house is my child,

my Khave!

My poor little lamb, and I want to see my child.

- Don't make a racket... - Don't worry!

I want my child.

Venerated Father, It's my Khave I want!

Khave! Khave, my daughter!

Fedya, no, no, Fedya!

My sweetheart, come on!

Let me go, Fedya!

Let me go, Fedye! He's calling me:

He's shouting “Khave!” “Khave!”

You dare talk to me that way!

Do you know who is standing in front of you?

You are standing in front of the Tsar's servant!

Who is the guardian of the holy Church!

My darling, my dear soul,

you have cried too much today,

you have to rest before the ceremony.

So sit down, my sweetheart...

My darling,

my sweetheart, my beloved...

Venerated Father,

take PW?

Look! See, have pity!

Venerated Father, I beg you...

Venerated Father,

Venerated Father,

Venerated Father, so kind, so respectable...

Oh, Tevel!

You, lowering yourself like this?!

A man lowers himself in front of his fellow man!

What?

You just told me about man and humanity.

AI least tell me

can I still hope to see my child again?

Of course!

But not right now. Later!

No, not later, right now, Venerated Father!

I want to see my child again! Right now, this minute!

You won't come in, Tevel!

I will come in!

Do you hear, I will go I tell you!

- You won't go! - Khave, my daughter!

Good People, help! Help!

Leave here here! Both of you!

Insolent people!

Father!

Mother!

So, did you hear those nice words?

Nice words, aren't they?

Words of truth.

- Well come on, let's go. - Where to, Tevya?

Let's go, let's go!

My friends, you have come to my son's wedding,

Thank you, thank you!

All the neighbours came to see our misfortune.

Oh, dear God! What to do?

Dear Mikita, we're good neighbours, both of us; have pity!

My Khave, my daughter, is in the priest's house.

I want to see her for just a minute!

I beg of you! I won't do anything to her, nor to you son Fedka.

How would I know where your Khave is?

Gel moving, you embedded tick!

You do know, Mikita!

You are now going into the priest's house, to witness my misfortune!

I beg of you, I will give the shin on my back,

I will remove my kaftan and I will give it to you...

Move you tick!

I apologize!

Paulina, my dear, you're a mother too.

Move, you disgusting tick!

They stick to you, they're impossible to get rid of!

It's unbearable, anyway!

Hello!

What do you think of the in-laws?

Decent in-laws!

Quality in-laws!

In-laws!

Here's Tevel,

he came to his daughter's wedding.

I feel sorry for him and his wife!

Fedka shouldn't have taken his daughter.

There are enough girls in the village!

Why go look among the Jewish girls?

You are right, Mr Mayor!

We have enough girls in the village!

Why search among the Jewish girls?

Well, come on, let's go...

Let's go!

All this ceremony at the Priests with the strange oaths

and the renunciation of my parents,

It was all lies, Fedya!

You can't disown your parents!

Not even for me, for my love, that is stronger than anything in the world?

My darling,

my sweet soul,

my sweet dove, my darling...

Congratulations to the newlyweds! Congratulations!

Well, children, enough hugging and kissing!

The Priest says its time to go to church!

Everybody's already at the church and they're waiting!

Come, darling!

- Come, my sweetheart! - Come, lovely girl!

Come, my sweet soul!

Best wishes!

No!

I have lost a child!

How can I bear the pain?

And the shame?

It's late...

It's time to recite "Got found Avrohm".

God of Abraham, of Isaac and Jacob,

protect your people of Israel from all evil.

The holy Shabbat has ended,

may this week come to us

with good health,

livelihood, moments of liberation, moments of solace,

for all the people of Israel,

Amen!

Mother...

Tseytel... Tseytel...

Darling mother...

Where is Dad?

He's been running everywhere:

Going from the officer to the mayor,

from the mayor to the priest;

but it's a lost cause.

Insensitive people...

And he goes to church and contemplates his misfortune.

Khave

Khave, what have you done?

What have you done?

Mother... Mother...

Well, enough crying, enough, Mother, enough.

Father is coming home...

Well, Tevya, well deserved.

That's it...

The trouble of raising your children...

Is that the satisfaction of your lineage?

Well, my dear Goldie, what do you say now?

What can I say?

And how can I talk?

When luck was on our side,

we left it to God, or to ourselves...

but all is lost now.

There's no way we can blame God...

With the Lord we can't switch roles.

Right now, Shabbat has just ended and we must do the havdole.

Forget the third meal; God will forgive the delay.

As for my evening prayer, may my enemies meet the same fate!

Brandy, instead of wine.

Father, God of my salvation I will be confident and not fearful

because the eternal Lord is my strength and vigour then salvation will be with me

You will draw water with joy at the sources of deliverance

The Eternal provides deliverance to His people he gives out His benefactions!

The Eternal and His armies of angels are with us He elevates us, the God of Jacob!

Eternal, God of the myriads, blessed is the man who trusts You!

The Eternal who saved us, the King Who answers when we call Him

For the Jewish, it was the light, joy, glee and splendour

May it be this way for us, I raise the cup of deliverance

And I proclaim the name of the Eternal : With the consent of our masters rabbis, Gentlemen,

You provide the good, Eternal, King of the Universe Who creates all through Your word.

You provide the good, O Eternal, King of the Universe

Who creates the lights of the fire.

You provide the good, O Eternal, King of the Universe

Who distinguishes the sacred from the profane

The light from the darkness, Israel from the nations,

The 7th day of the six days of action.

You provide the good, O Eternal,

Who distinguishes the sacred from the secular,

You provide the good, O Eternal Who distinguishes the sacred from the profane,

Have a good week!

Have a good week!

Have a good week!

Well, then,

we have settled our accounts with the Lord:

What He owed me,

and what I owed Him.

We're even!

Now we can go back to our personal business

As it is written: "Each in his own cave

No more Khave!

She is dead, Khave!

God has given, God has taken back.

Thus we can say:

He provides the good, He Who judges in all fairness

Now you can cry,

but not Tevya!

It would be shameful!

Tevya doesn't cry!

Tevya is not a Jewish woman!

According to the law, we should observe a week of mourning...

But no more than an hour...

not more than an hour...

Sitting on the floor...

Crying your fill...

Then no more... forgotten!

As it is written: "He forgot him".

As you forget a deceased...

What am I saying? A deceased?

For a deceased, we would say the kaddish!

For a deceased, we respect The anniversary of the passing!

But here, no need for the kaddish, no need for the yortsyt!

Here, ifs only:

May the name of Khave be neither remembered, nor celebrated!

Such children, we mustn't recall their name

neither positively nor negatively!

Loy iyzokhér veloy yipokéd!

Do you hear what you're being told?

I don’t want to be reminded of Khavé's name!

Do you hear me?

Dead!

She never existed!

God!

God! Where are You, God?

Where are You?

I'm fed up with him!

All day long, he wrecks your head!

I'm telling you, the Council is right!

It's the council!

What Council?

It's the governor,

and they say ifs the Council!

Go to lunch, stop playing!

Enough playing, we said!

I'll say it again, the Council knows what it's doing

and there is nothing wrong!

Council here, Council there!

Zazula, is it true

that the Council is ready to expel Tevel from the village?

It's true! The Council is going to throw Tevel out of the village

It would be disgusting of the Council to ban Tevel from our village!

Tevel is a good neighbour

and an honest man.

Am I wrong, Elder?

I agree, Tevel is a good man although he's a Jew,

We're going to refer this case to the Council!

You, don't speak badly of the Council!

I have been secretary of the town Council for 35 years.

It is forbidden to revile the Council!

For your words, the Council

can send you all far away, to Siberia, to work!

And you dare gossip about the Council!

Oh you and your Council! yes, with your Council!

If we ever ban Tevel from our village,

it will be your fault,

and the fault of your son, Mikita Galagan!

And your son Fedya, we know him too!

My Fedka's little finger is worth more than you and your titles!

She's very ill...

They say that the doctor came from the city yesterday.

I will go with you!

I'd like to know who would dare prevent you from seeing your mother

before she dies!

If she sees me she will only die quicker!

She has always been a strong woman, my mother.

She's leaving this world because of me.

Mother, take a bit of milk...

Father!

Oh, that's it...

- That's the way it is... - Mother...

Do you miss grandma Goldie, may he rest in peace?

It's for our dad that we say "May he rest in peace!"

For grandma Goldie, we say: May she rest in peace!

Do you miss Grandma Goldie, may she rest in peace?

You are so clingy!

First, let the cat run!

When you play with a cat, you lose our memory!

Why do we lose our memory, hey?

Because a cat has no memory!

And why does a cat have no memory?

Because you are clingy!

Mother!

Calm down!

Enough! Go home!

And you too!

Our skin is itching because of them, Dad!

Tseytel, please, go to the basement and bring back cheese, milk,

cream and buttermilk,

I will take it all to Boiberik to sell dairy.

Right away, Dad!

Oh, it's so hot!

A furnace!

A hot borscht cools the bowels!

And it strengthens the heart!

Stop serving them! Sit down and eat, Vera!

Mother, stop stuffing yourself!

She's tired of sewing a dishful after another!

Am I her daughter-in-law? Or is she mine?

- Respect for the parents! - Respect for the parents!

" Dad! " Dad!

A Jew must study, a Jew, do you hear me?

A Jew must study, a Jew, do you hear me?

Good God! When you'll become Bar-Milzvah,

In memory of your father, you'll have to say the Kaddish,

like a good Jew, do you hear me?

And you'd better read a psalm from time to time! Let's go!

But I do study, grandpa!

But the psalms, they don't get into my head that quick.

They don’t get into your head? We'll make them get there!

Grandpa, I want to study too!

Oh, do take care! Do you hear me?

A little girl, she wants to study too!

Well, there!

Listen carefully, you're going to hear us read a psalm!

- Hymn... - Hymn...

- of David - of David

May God give you good health! You heard it, didn't you?

She wants to learn Hebrew, that's what she wants! But the Psalms,

are not for women!

They are for gentlemen. He must study.

Hymn of David

- The Eternal - The Eternal

- is my Shepard - is my Shepard

- I shall not want. - I shall not want.

Good, now all at once, with a melody:

- Thy peace - Thy peace

- and Thy support - and Thy support

Well, good boy! You know it well!

One more time,

- Greetings, Tevel! - Greetings, Tevel!

Well, that's the whole Council!

What good news do you bring me? What are the world news?

Make yourselves at home, come in, come nearer!

We came to tell you, Tevel,

that we are banning you from the village.

The Council has made his decision.

The Council! The Council wants it.

I am being banned from the village?

It seems to me, that during the 50 years I've spent in the village, I've deceived nobody,

nor robbed anyone, nor made anybody unhappy, as far as I know...

An ukaze from the Tsar has arrived

Ordering the Jews to be expelled from all villages.

It's a legal order...

Legal! From all villages the Jews are being expelled...

From all villages the Jews are being expelled...

And if in all the villages your fellow men were culling their noses

would you do it too?

No, Tevel! If it was only up to me, you could stay here

all your life, and even die here. Am I right?

Absolutely right! And even die here!

When it comes to dying, you are all privileged:

you are Christians, you have ranks, you have medals,

you will be buried with great ceremony.

But I am only a poor Jew:

They'll have to take me to town, and look for a Jewish cemetery.

No, I must live still!

I have been blessed in my old age

with very lively grandchildren...

what will I do with them when I'm older still?

Unless I take a saddlebag and go begging from door to door...

Father! Here's the police officer and his secretary!

Why be scared? It is written: Ham an came

and Rashi comments: ifs the devil who is sending you here!

Tevel... Step back, children!

Tevel, in 24 hours

you will have left the village.

Understood?

What is there that's so difficult to understand?

A nice doctrine, deep wisdom?

You give me 24 hours to catch my breath,

sell my furniture,

pack the few things I have,

and leave this sacrosanct village where our sinners' feet must walk no more.

Enough chit-shall

Zazula! You will read the procedure to him

and he will sign it!

Moron!

At the behest of His most gracious Majesty the Tsar

No, thanks, please!

I understand the content the Council has decided to ban me from here.

Why so many speeches?

It can be said in three words: Tevye, please, we beg you...

Enough talking!

I want this signed and over!

See

I'm writing.

What is this scribble?

You take the quill, you dip it and you go: tschick!

Moron!

- What a strange writing! - Come on, Zazula!

Lei us through!

It's not our fault, Tevel!

The Council made this decision!

The Council! The Council...

What will become of us, Dad?

What are we going to do?

Take it easy, take it easy,

Stop crying... We cry for the Ounsané toykef prayer!

She is so upset! Do you know what it means to be deceived?

Ifs God's will! When are we not banned?

Where are we not banned from?

We are banned!

We are banned!

On, stop crying!

Shloimele, my dear grandson, when you start studying the Torah,

Listen, You will learn the part

where God says to Abraham, our ancestor:

Start walking, he said away from your country

please, master Avreml, to the country I will show you

For 24 years!

24 years!

Tseytel, please, start packing all the little things,

I will go out to sell the rooms, the furniture,

and all the rest

and before night comes

we will leave their sacrosanct village where our sinners' feet must walk no more.

Come on, come on, you have cried enough haven't you?

But where to, Dad? Where will we go?

In a forest... among the animals...

it will be better anyway than among them...

Have you ever seen me work?

With our good friends?

Our good friends...

Where is my whip?

Here is my whip!

As the verse says:

with my stick, I crossed the Jordan

Comment from Rashi:

He came with his whip, and he left with his whip.

Please remove,

remove the paintings from the walls,

all these portraits, we're going to pack them

in crates and we will take them away.

Put all this away.

What a pity for Tevel...

An intelligent man! But stubborn...

He could have become for us the brains of the village,

if he had willed to convert to our belief.

I had already talked to him several times about it,

I opened his eyes,

but he's stubborn.

What a shame for him...

Poor Tevel!

It's Mother...

What a good man, this Tevel;

He's selling everything so cheap!

Why wouldn’t he sell cheap? If he could, he would ask for more.

Well, Tevel, how much do you want for your horse?

I haven't got the time!

Well, brother, we're going to say goodbye.

You were a good mate, a real friend.

For years we have travelled

on the road, in the cold, the frost, the snow storms.

But now, brother, I have to entrust you to someone else's hands.

But what am I to do,

if the Lekh-lékho section applies to me?

Look here, see how he's looking at me with his sad eyes.

Come on, try to justify yourself to a horse, justify yourself!

Well, Tevel, here is the money!

No, dear brother, I can't sell the horse to you!

Whatever you want, do you hear? Except for the horse.

Why are you wrecking my head if you can't sell it? You beast!

Oh, poor Tevel!

He was an endearing Jew,

we spent so many years together with him in the village...

For everything I payed him, for what I bought,

for all the things.

But this decorative object, I took it for myself.

I even took candlesticks, with a coloured doily,

his Shabbat candlesticks...

Give that to me, you fool!

Why did you take them? You don't have a wife anyway...

It will be useful to me.

What a pity, it's a pity I don’t have a wife.

Expensive candlesticks!

Anyway, no woman would be willing to help you.

If I had known you'd taken the candlesticks from me,

I wouldn't'! have stolen them.

You shouldn't have stolen his candlesticks!

She had a good soul!

A kind farmer!

It's true, ifs true, she was a good soul, Tevya's wife!

To poor mujiks, she gave milk,

some cheese, a bowl of borscht!

She was a good soul, Tevel's wife!

What a pity, what a pity, that Tevel and his wife are leaving!

Yes, Tseytel, we are leaving for the land of Israel!

Why the land of Israel, Father?

Where would I go? To America?

What would I do in my old age in America?

I don't understand their language, and they don't understand mine.

Or I can go to Argentina

or to Palestine, or the land of Israel.

Oh, the land of Israel!

I could have a look at the Patriarchs' graves,

and climb Mount Sinai!

And Padan-Aram and Kadesh-Barnea, and Pithom et Ramses..

A collection of Pentateuch...

A little prayer book... There's everything in here... Clever...

A collection of repentance poems...

A collection of lamentations...

And what is this little squirrel?

A book of blessings!

There's the whole heritage we have to take from the Diaspora

to the land of Israel!

Mother, come outside!

Come outside!

- Tseyte! - Khave!

I'm afraid Dad might come out. Let's go further away!

Tseytel, my sister, I just learnt they're throwing you out of here.

The Shabbat candlesticks of our mother...

I took them back from them,

and I ran straight to here.

Oh, Tseytel, if you knew how much I've missed you all!

Father...

Mother...

I went to see her grave at the cemetery today.

I was fasting every year on Yom Kippur.

My body was over there,

but my soul was with you.

A nightmare!

Oh, Tseytel, I don't know how I managed to bear that!

Khavele! Fedka is coming by horse!

Lei him come...

Nobody will take me away from my father's house anymore!

I understand everything...

but what am I guilty of?

I've never harmed you.

I love you now even more than myself...

I've got nothing against you, Fedka.

You are a good boy, that's why I'm asking you:

leave me now!

I haven't got the strength anymore...

can't bear the absence of my people.

Fedka, take pity on me!

Khave, Dad is coming out of the house!

Go home, Fedka, and don’t be angry with me.

I will always think well of you.

You can see it is not possible,

these are two different worlds.

Dad, everything is already packed,

we are taking everything with us,

but there is one person we are leaving behind,

alone like a rock...

What are you mumbling?

Don’t forget you have another daughter still...

I have no other daughters...

- I have no other daughters! - Dad!

- Are you listening to me? - Grandpa!

I have no other daughter!

I have no other daughter! No other.

Granpa, don'! shout at Mother!

Grandpa, don’t fight with Mother!

Your mother, only infuriates me!

- I have no other daughter, I said! - Grandpa!

No other daughter, I said! Now, move!

Dad

when she learnt we were being expelled, she came back to us.

She said: where you will be, I will be.

She went to Mother’s grave.

She fasts at Yom Kippur, Dad!

What is this about Yom Kippur? Lousy stories!

Grandpa, We saw Khave!

Is this a dream?

Oh, Tevya,

it's the strength of bloodlines!

She must go!

Dad, in front of my two children, you won’t chase her away!

Sit down, dear Dad! Take pity!

Pity?

Pity...

And where was her pity

when her mother was sitting on the floor, all dressed in black?

But you yourself say it's written in the...

You know where..

That God has pity even on the smallest worm.

Who knows it better than you?

This has nothing to do with it.

I can tell you that no repentance, no regret will do.

The one who leaves us one day can never come back.

The branch that has been torn off the tree must decompose.

And the leaf that has fallen from the tree must decompose.

Father, I have not been torn off from the tree,

All that the Priest said didn't affect my soul.

My soul has remained as pure as it was before.

But it converted!

Did it really convert?!

Gel out of here! Gel out of here!

Dear Father, take pity!

I did not convert, Father.

I constantly thought of you and remembered you.

I had imagined that everything was more beautiful there

and better than ours.

But it was a mistake:

Your ancient beliefs, are the true ones...

not the other ones...

Now I understand...

Father,

I want to come home!

I can’t live without you anymore.

My soul belongs to you.

Where you are, I will be.

Your existence will be mine.

Your misfortune

will be mine.

Our life will be hers, our misfortune will be hers,

My Lord, God, all in all, help us!

As we read in the holy Scroll What am I saying? Which Scroll?

I think it's in the Ecclesiastes: My people is your people

Our God is her God.

Now that's talking...

That's how you must talk to Tevya's daughters...

to Tevya's daughters.

Oh my Lord, God, my Lord, God...

I would've wanted one thing:

for the officer to be here with Zazula, his scribe

and for them to hear what she says and die from it!

Grandpa...

And now... Must I close my eyes

and forgive her on the next Yom Kippur?

And say: I have forgiven according to your word?

But if I have forgiven, what about God?

Would God forgive such an offense?

Such a sin?

By saying this,

am I liable to defend God?

What do I know? Lord, what should I do

if... if... You Yourself have written: Have pity like a father for his children

A father, with a heart,

with a soul...

My Lord,

so what do you say about it? Do I know?