I ve read a lot about that period but not specifically about the jews.
Fiddler on the roof cossacks.
In prerevolutionary russia a jewish peasant contends with marrying off three of his daughters while growing anti semitic sentiment threatens his village.
With topol norma crane leonard frey molly picon.
The famous broadway musical and film fiddler on the roof showed the cruelty of the russian pogroms on the jews in the fictional anatevka in the early 20th century.
The jews were definitely persecuted in russia then.
I can imagine that cossacks would have broken up weddings like that and they were very fearsome.
In the adult animated musical drama film american pop set during imperial russia during the late 1890s a rabbi s wife and her young son zalmie escape to america while the rabbi is.
I think that fiddler on the roof was quite accurate.
It is based on tevye and his daughters or tevye the dairyman and other tales by sholem aleichem the story centers on tevye the father of five daughters and his attempts to maintain his jewish religious and.