Fiddler On The Roof Time

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 time.

Fiddler on the roof original musical comedy drama broadway opened in new york city sep 22 1964 and played through jul 2 1972. In prerevolutionary russia a jewish peasant contends with marrying off three of his daughters while growing anti semitic sentiment threatens his village. 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 based on tevye or tevye the dairyman and his daughters a series of stories by sholem aleichem that he wrote in yiddish between 1894 and 1914 about jewish life in a village in the pale of settlement of imperial russia at the turn of the 20th century.