Joseph Stein
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Fiddler on the Roof is well established as one of the great works of American musical theater. Adapted from the tales of Yiddish writer Sholom Alecheim and set in Tsarist Russia in 1905, it has proven an indelible tale of family, tradition, wit, and sorrow - all filtered through the ordeals of Tevye, a Jewish Everyman. Tevye, who lives in the fictional village Anatevka, is a hard-working milkman who clings to his faith and traditions, while dreaming...
Author
Publisher
Samuel French
Pub. Date
[1963]
Language
English
Description
The riotous account of a stage struck youth who works as a delivery boy in a sewing machine factory. His parents want him to be a druggist, but as soon as he's saved enough money he enlists in a hammy, semi professional company that will put anybody in any play for the right amount of money. He is a dreadful actor and the scene of his first performance is hilarious. He proceeds to splash through romantic scenes with the manager's daughter, with another...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Tevye is a poor Jewish milkman with five unmarried daughters to support in a village in Czarist Russia. With a sharp tongued wife at home and growing anti-Semitism in the village, Tevye talks to God about his troubles. His people's traditions keep him strong when his existence is as precariously balanced as a fiddler on the roof.
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Tevye is a poor milkman in czarist Russia, where he provides for three unmarried daughters and a sharp-tongued wife. Faced with mounting financial strain and growing anti-Semitism, Tevye strives to maintain balance despite the precarious nature of his situation.