The author Sholem Aleichem describes Tevye as a wise Jewish dairyman of a Russian village who can readily quote the Bible or some other holy text on any occasion. ... This decision did not take much thought, only six percent Russian Jews were married to non-Jews in the early 20th century , it was a wise decision on Tevyes part for the sake of his business and moral beliefs. ... Through the research I have done on the marriages that occur in the story and how history shows how marriages happened in the Jewish community I felt that Sholem Aleichem accurately portrayed how a Jewish man would of...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

After Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party rose to popular power in January of 1933, the Jews of Germany, and later all of mainland Europe, would be living in a deadly, deadly society. These years, later called the Holocaust Years, would see the Jewish population of Europe being exterminated, as part of Hitler's "Final Solution" in dealing with what he called the Jewish problem, in his rhetorical speeches of hate against Jews. At 1933, there had been well over nine million Jews living in Europe. Before the war began, 1939, most Jews had already begun to be sent to concentration camps, trans...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate