Tevya (1939)

Miriam Riselle: Chavah

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• Fedya 'Fedye' Galagen : You're so beautiful, like the dreamy skies over our Malorossiya.

  Chavah 'Khave' : You speak so beautifully now, like in the books.

  Fedya 'Fedye' Galagen : Why the strange laugh?

  Chavah 'Khave' : I'm happy, so I laugh. I'm not sad in the daytime.

  Fedya 'Fedye' Galagen : You'll never be sad with me. You're my sunlight, my life. For I'd go...

  Chavah 'Khave' : In fire, in water. Like the books.

  [laughs] 

• Chavah 'Khave' : [singing]  The wind blows, the rain falls, If you want a girl like me, Then you'll have to walk me home...

• Tevya 'Tevye' : You need the book now?

  Chavah 'Khave' : Papa we agreed you wouldn't mix in my business. Like it's written, "Mine art thine, and thine, thine."

  Tevya 'Tevye' : Spoken like a true ignoramus. But you do know the grammar. Never mix in someone else's business. For example, if I mixed in with Mama's borscht?

  Goldie 'Golde' : Crazy man! The borscht waits, and he sings!

  Tevya 'Tevye' : You hear? The sages were right. A hundred-pound Jewess has two tons of talk. We're discussing books. She's discussing borscht.

• Chavah 'Khave' : Why are there these differences between people, between beliefs?

  Fedya 'Fedye' Galagen : Wicked people created these differences. But we should keep ourselves above all beliefs. Because you are my belief.

• Chavah 'Khave' : My soul belongs to you. Where you are, I am. Your life is my life. Your pain is my pain.

• Chavah 'Khave' : You yourself said there is one God over everyone, so therefore...

  Tevya 'Tevye' : That's true. To God we're the same. All Israel has a share, in the world to come. That means Jews and gentiles are equal. But this you know. The Holy Torah commands us to love all peoples. But Amalek, who tormented us, we must never forget. Right?