I ve read a lot about that period but not specifically about the jews.
Fiddler on the roof cossacks.
In prerevolutionary russia a jewish peasant contends with marrying off three of his daughters while growing anti semitic sentiment threatens his village.
Fiddler on the roof is a musical with music by jerry bock lyrics by sheldon harnick and book by joseph stein set in the pale of settlement of imperial russia in or around 1905.
The famous broadway musical and film fiddler on the roof showed the cruelty of the russian pogroms on the jews in the fictional anatevka in the early 20th century.
The jews were definitely persecuted in russia then.
With topol norma crane leonard frey molly picon.
I think that fiddler on the roof was quite accurate.
Directed by norman jewison.
I can imagine that cossacks would have broken up weddings like that and they were very fearsome.