And fill in the details of who’s who.) As for Feydka The Goy, was he a Kulak and so poised for extermination in the 1920s, or since he and Chava, at the end of the play, announce their intentions to move to Poland, would they actually stick it out until Hitler came for them? Did I think he’d die in Siberian exile along with Hodel, or would they return with Lenin and Stalin to join the October Revolution in 1917 and then be killed during the 1930s purges? (This is what happens when you let a boy with a Soviet Jewish mother read Animal Farm. My 13-year-old son, who is in the eighth grade and thus knows everything and will be happy to tell you so repeatedly, was most concerned with Perchik’s fate. Not just based on age, but on their distinctive personalities. What interested me most was how different each of their subsequent reactions was. Even if we had just watched the classic movie the night before, the first time for all three of them, the 13-year-old and the 9-year-old, too. That’s quite a thematic change, isn’t it? Now she wanted to be Tzietel from “ Fiddler on the Roof.” Photos were taken and everything.īut then, my daughter changed her mind. ![]() Her biggest brother not only made her a crown with matching veil, he also whipped up jester costumes for himself and his younger brother so they could accompany her as wandering minstrels. Up until 15 minutes before we left the house to go trick-or-treating this Halloween, my 5-year-old daughter was going dressed as a medieval princess.
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