This faceted-glass panel, one of four set into the windscreens of the elevated platforms, illuminates Mottel, the Cantor's Son. The last novel of the Yiddish author Sholem Aleichem, it was unfinished at his death, in the Bronx, in 1916. The panel also celebrates Aleichem's work as a whole: Above the cabbage peddler's customer is a diminutive fiddler on the roof.
Bronx Literature
Beatrice Coron, 2006
Burke Ave. station, Wakefield-bound platform, Williamsbridge, Bronx
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