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3 unusual facts about The Rise of David Levinsky


The Rise of David Levinsky

The musical was performed again by the New Vista Theatre Company in Boynton Beach, Florida, in March 2007.

At the end of evening school, Mr. Bender gives David a copy of Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens.

He has, however, lost interest in the Talmud, and contends that "its spell was broken irretrievably." The situation of Jews in Russia began to deteriorate after the assassination of Czar Alexander II in 1881 and anti-Jewish riots "were encouraged, even arranged, by the authorities".


Rigi

There is a Catskills resort called the Rigi Kulm in Abraham Cahan's novel The Rise of David Levinsky (1917).


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