Treasure Trove looks at the enduring and international appeal of ‘Fiddler on the Roof’
Fiddler on the Roof opened on Broadway on Sept. 22, 1964. The musical, based on a story by Sholem Aleichem, is about the life of Tevye the milkman, and his three daughters in the town of Anatevka. Although Anatevka was a fictional place, it’s now the name of a village for refugees outside Kyiv and has Jewish […]
B.C. high school involves Jewish community for Fiddler on the Roof production
Of the 90 students involved in Oak Bay High School’s production of Fiddler on the Roof, only two are Jewish. Therefore Rabbi Lynn Greenhough of Kolot Mayim Reform Temple was brought in to educate the teenagers about Judaism.
Lazar: What makes a play Jewish?
Marilyn Lazar explores how Jews have been integral to the development of provocative and necessary theatre productions in the Toronto area.
Documentary shows the timelessness of ‘Fiddler’
Michael Fraiman reviews the new documentary, Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles.
Shternshis: Dredging up a shameful past
One of the most haunting moments of the New York’s Folksbiene Off-Broadway production of Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish is the scene in which Jewish residents of the fictional eastern European town of Anatevka are given a few days to pack everything they own and are ordered to leave for an unknown destination. All […]
Inside the burgeoning Yiddish renaissance
Picture a secular, global, urban hipster: that’s the face of the new Yiddish.
