This is the Forward’s coverage of Fiddler on the Roof, the seminal 1964 Broadway musical about a Russian man who attempts to maintain his Jewish way of life circa 1905. It is based on Yiddish stories by Sholem Aleichem,…
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Culture In a new opera, Tevye’s forgotten daughter takes the spotlight
'Tevye’s Daughters’ recalls a repressed memory from the women’s perspective
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Fast Forward Donald Trump reportedly expressed affection for ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ at Kennedy Center meeting
Trump also said his father, Fred Trump had thwarted the musical aptitude he showed as a child
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Theater Jason Alexander lives out a lifelong dream, playing Tevye in ‘Fiddler on the Roof’
'I wanted to do a piece that is proudly Semitic' said the Tony winner and ‘Seinfeld' star
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BINTEL BRIEF This father is fed up with his anti-Zionist kid — and they’re not even Jewish
Bintel says please don't be like Tevye, who sat shiva for his living daughter
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Film & TV How two Normans — Jewison and Lear — changed this Oscar-winning actress’ life
After spending 12 years on the blacklist, Lee Grant found her path back to the screen through collaborations with Jewison and Lear
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Film & TV How a self-proclaimed ‘goy’ named Norman Jewison made one of the most Jewish movies ever
Jewison, who died at 97, made ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ a big-screen phenomenon
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Fast Forward Actress and teacher Joanna Merlin, original Tzeitel in Broadway’s ‘Fiddler,’ dies at 92
A grueling audition process earned her the role of the daughter who married Motel the tailor
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Culture A peek behind the curtain at the Broadway debut of ‘Fiddler on the Roof’
An illustrated look at the making of the most iconic Jewish musical in history
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