Fiddler Roof Jews Are Miserable

Jews in anatevka live in an uneasy peace where there is state sponsored violence he said.

Fiddler roof jews are miserable.

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. 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. Too jewish that s what potential backers said about fiddler on the roof when it was proposed to them in 1964. In this way fiddler on the roof the enduring musical about a jewish milkman in tsarist russia.

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. Tevye pours out his complaints in an ongoing and unrequited dialogue with god. It is extraordinary not the norm if a work of art can change how people look at each other. The jews had their torah to comfort them although women were rarely taught hebrew so as to be able to read it.

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. Ermelo a town with 27 000 residents in the middle of the dutch bible belt. It could never bring in a general audience. Albin evoked the evening s theme speaking and even singing about fiddler on the roof s fictional town anatevka in 1905.