Fiddler Roof Jews Are Miserable

Tevye pours out his complaints in an ongoing and unrequited dialogue with god.

Fiddler roof jews are miserable.

The jews had their torah to comfort them although women were rarely taught hebrew so as to be able to read it. Once again i found myself in one of the least jewish places imaginable. Too jewish that s what potential backers said about fiddler on the roof when it was proposed to them in 1964. Fiddler on the roof is a reminder of how difficult it has historically been to put a secure roof over the heads of the jewish people.

Shortly after this life altering high school production of fiddler on the roof my family moved back to the netherlands where my parents had grown up and my extended family still lived. It is extraordinary not the norm if a work of art can change how people look at each other. Ermelo a town with 27 000 residents in the middle of the dutch bible belt. It could never bring in a general audience.

Jewish backwardness from fiddler on the roof the audience gets no sense of the downside of the jewish reformation as it left its impress on jewish life in the pale in the nineteenth century. Albin evoked the evening s theme speaking and even singing about fiddler on the roof s fictional town anatevka in 1905. Of course any reasonably informed and intellectually honest. The events related in the fiddler on the roof take place in anatevka a fictional town inside the pale during the year of 1905.