Perchik is a former Kiev University scholar who arrives in a Russian village and charms milkman Tevye into taking him into his home to teach his five daughters, subsequently winning Hodel's heart, though his radicalism concerns the tightly knit Jewish community in social, religious and political ways. Eventually he is jailed in Siberia, and Ho...
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Perchik is a former Kiev University scholar who arrives in a Russian village and charms milkman Tevye into taking him into his home to teach his five daughters, subsequently winning Hodel's heart, though his radicalism concerns the tightly knit Jewish community in social, religious and political ways. Eventually he is jailed in Siberia, and Hodel leaves on a train to be with him. Show less «