Fiddler on the roof this rousing musical based on the stories of shalom aleichem takes place in pre revolutionary russia and centers on the life of tevye topol a milkman who is trying to keep his family s traditions in place while marrying off his three older daughters.
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Thank you i ll go and get it.
Ah children they are your blessing in your old age.
Yente has returned from the post office yente.
Between you and me golde he hardly tried.
Tzeitel hodel chava schprintze and bielke.
But here in our little village of anatevka you might say every one of us is a fiddler on the roof trying to scratch out a pleasant simple tune without breaking his neck.
In prerevolutionary russia a jewish peasant contends with marrying off three of his daughters while growing anti semitic sentiment threatens his village.
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Where does the book say that.
Set in the fictional shtetl of anatevka in the pale of settlement of the russian empire just before the revolution of 1905 it tells the story of tevye a milkman with five daughters.
As the good book says when a poor man eats a chicken one of them is sick.
A fiddler on the roof.
Directed by norman jewison.
Well it doesn t say that exactly but somewhere there is something about a chicken.
Fiddler on the roof is a popular musical from the 1960s based on a set of stories by yiddish writer sholem aleichem pen name for solomon rabinovich.
With topol norma crane leonard frey molly picon.
The postman told me there was a letter for your sister hodel.