Fiddler on the roof is based on tevye or tevye the dairyman and his daughters a series of stories by sholem aleichem that he wrote in yiddish between 1894 and 1914 about jewish life in a village in the pale of settlement of imperial russia at the turn of the 20th century.
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Featuring the broadway classics tradition if i were a rich man sunrise sunset matchmaker matchmaker and to life fiddler on the roof will introduce a new generation to this uplifting.
Fiddler on the roof tony winning director bartlett sher and the team behind south pacific the king and i and 2017 tony winning best play oslo bring a fresh and authentic vision to this beloved theatrical masterpiece from tony winner joseph stein and pulitzer prize winners jerry bock and sheldon harnick.
From 1880 to 1920 when there was a political social crisis the russian government would incite the population against the jews trying to divert its attention from the real problems.
The events related in the fiddler on the roof take place in anatevka a fictional town inside the pale during the year of 1905.