Tevye the Dairyman / Motl the Cantor's Son. By Shalom Aleichem - Russian

Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor-s Son are the most celebrated characters in all of Jewish fiction
Tevye is the lovable, Bible-quoting father of seven daughters, a modern Job whose wisdom, humor, and resilience inspired the lead character in Fiddler on the Roof
And Motl is the spirited and mischievous nine-year-old boy who accompanies his family on a journey from their Russian shtetl to New York, and whose comical, poignant, and clear-eyed observations capture with remarkable insight the struggles and hopes and triumphs of Jewish immigrants to America at the turn of the twentieth century
Translated from Yiddish by Shambadal