Fiddler On The Roof Those Were The Days

The events related in the fiddler on the roof take place in anatevka a fictional town inside the pale during the year of 1905.

Fiddler on the roof those were the days.

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. Fiddler on the roof is by far my favorite musical and i think that this recording captures the essence of the show perfectly. I think that shalom alechem was writing how he felt that the jews of the shtetl were like in those times as in fact my grandparents were as they emerged from the back of beyond in russia and poland. The movie was my first experience with the performance so i am quite biased towards this version compared to the original broadway show staring zero mostel.

It is believed in jewish custom that methusela was the first great fiddle player and that king david might have been the second yes in the torah he is depicted as playing the harp but the word used for harp can also be applied to just stringed. In prerevolutionary russia a jewish peasant contends with marrying off three of his daughters while growing anti semitic sentiment threatens his village. With john conte kingshead pub pompano fl 5 17 16. Directed by maurice schwartz.

With maurice schwartz miriam riselle rebecca weintraub paula lubelski. Those were the days is a song credited to gene raskin who put a new english lyric to the russian romance song dorogoi dlinnoyu дорогой длинною literally by the long road composed by boris fomin 1900 1948 with words by the poet konstantin podrevsky. The original non musical film version of the book which inspired fiddler on the roof. Fiddler on the roof i have seen the film fiddler on the roof many times and i have read the stories of tevye the milkman also many times over.

With topol norma crane leonard frey molly picon.