Revolution shakes Tsarist Russia. Anti-Semitism and pogroms rage. The Jews of Anatevka have three days to leave their village... Aboard his wagon, Tuvia the milkman takes his daughters, whose beauty and grace are his pride and joy, not forgetting Golda, his deceased wife, in the coffin he has carefully exhumed! An eventful journey takes them to the Holy Land. But Tuvia and his family are not at the end of their troubles. The country remains to be built and Tuvia, a "hero in spite of himself," takes us on adventures, each more delicious than the last, to the heart of the first kibbutzim sponsored by Baron Rothschild. Naturally kind and cheerful, Tuvia faces adversity with a pragmatism matched only by his faith: he overcomes a mosquito-infested swamp, fights off a locust invasion using pioneer cooking utensils, escapes Turkish prisons and a cholera epidemic... all while keeping a tender eye on his daughters, whose happiness matters more than anything else in the world. A brilliant heir to Sholem Aleichem and his famous Fiddler on the Roof, Tzvi Fishman, steeped in Yiddish literature, has recreated its atmosphere and incomparable humor. With its colorful dialogue and a gallery of characters, the author's pen plunges delightfully into Alexandre Dumas's inkwell. Tuvia's epic in the Promised Land is an unforgettable journey to the time of the beginnings of Israel.