Fiddler On The Roof Tradition

Tradition is the opening number for the 1964 broadway musical fiddler on the roof. In the song the main character tevye explains the roles of each social class fathers mothers sons and daughters in the village of anatevka and how the traditional roles of people like the matchmaker the beggar and the rabbi contribute to the village the song also mentions the constable the priest. Fiddler on the roof tells the story of tevye a jewish dairyman and his family living in anatevka a fictional town inside the pale settlement of imperial russia in 1905.