The “narrator” … walked out production description based on video of performance kindly supplied by Miklasz, and interviews with Miklasz, Woźniak, and a dozen cast members.
a slander still granted great credence Tokarska-Bakir, “Sandomierz Blood-Libel Myths,” manuscript generously shared by its author.
EPILOGUE: FIDDLING WITH TRADITION
a man bursts into the hall description of the performance from Pasternak interview; see also promotional video of their performances at bottledancers.com.
Amazing Bottle Dancers This section was excerpted for my article “Balancing Act,” TDR 55:3 (T211) (Fall 2011): 21–30.
“a way of adding a touch of tradition” Pasternak interview.
“age-old magnificent dance” Amazing Bottle Dancers promotional video.
Chabad telethon April 6, 2008, http://youtube/AwOzf8dvFNU.
“a mode of cultural production” Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Destination Culture, 7.
“If a Jewish work…” Ruth Wisse, Modern Jewish Canon, 65.
“poignant musical tribute” YIVO News, no. 190 (Summer 2000): 3.
royalties on his Hebrew translation of Fiddler Almagor interview; Isabel Kershner, “Palestinians Serenade Survivors in Israel,” New York Times, March 26, 2009, A10.
“the very people who are telling” “Theodor Bikel: It Hurts that the Descendants of Anatevka Expel Israeli Bedouin,” posted May 31, 2013. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLeWQ470G6.
“working for generations” David Magazine, Las Vegas, NV, n.d., clipping shared by Jack Solomon (deceased).
“Anti-Semitic Cartoons Contest” http://jewschool.com/2006/02/14/10045/israelis-launch-own-antisemitic-cartoon-contest/.
“If I Were a Rich Man Tour” a project of Bent Arc, A Jewish Partnership for Justice, in fall 2012; see http://bendthearc.us/campaigns/if-i-were-rich-man-tour/news_items.
Abramoff … decided to become religiously observant Abramoff quoted in Michael Crowley, “A Lobbyist in Full,” New York Times Magazine, June 24, 2010.
Stephen Colbert’s joking that The Colbert Report, Comedy Central, broadcast September 22, 2009.
Alicia Svigals Interview.
“new Jewish culture” See, for example, Steven M. Cohen and Ari Y. Kelman, The Continuity of Discontinuity: How Young Jews Are Connecting, Creating, and Organizing Their Own Jewish Lives (New York: Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies, 21/64, 2007), http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=327; Steven M. Cohen and Ari Y. Kelman, Uncoupled: How Our Singles Are Reshaping Jewish Engagement, Jewish Identity Project of Reboot, 2008, http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=332; Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, “The New Jews.”
high rates of academic achievement This figure and others cited come from the National Jewish Population Survey 2000–2001. While the survey’s methodology generated controversy and its findings are now more than a decade old, it remains the most comprehensive picture we have.
In the Heights Miranda interviewed on “Chasing Broadway Dreams,” PBS, May 27, 2009; see also Miranda’s wedding surprise for his bride, posted on YouTube: A rendition of “L’Chaim” led by him and his new father-in-law, http://youtube/KgZ4ZTTfKO8.
Rajiv Menon has been dreaming e-mail correspondence with Menon, September 12, 2008.
“in many respects, an adaptation of genius” Wisse, Modern Jewish Canon, 63.
the roof tilted into Cameri production viewed in Tel Aviv, January 5, 2009; interviews with Datner, Kepten, Smorgonski, Toren.
“fresh, exciting approach” Bock letter to Theodore Bikel, February 1, 2001, JBP20:8.
They rejected Harnick-3 interview.
“renewal, not revival” Bock speaking on Fresh Air, June 21, 2004.
Leveaux figured there was still room Leveaux interview.
Bock relished the chance Bock speaking on Fresh Air, June 21, 2004.
Harnick focused on Harnick-3 interview.
“Topsy Turvy” … didn’t work as well Harnick-3 interview.
authors didn’t like the ring of those lines Harnick-3 interview.
“take that musical and strip it of the schtick” Leveaux interviewed by Mark Shenton, What’s on Stage, June 16, 2003.
damping him down in rehearsals Harnick e-mail.
“tastes great and looks Jewish” Thane Rosenbaum, “A Legacy Cut Loose,” Los Angeles Times, February 15, 2004.
“de-Jewed” Michael Riedel, “Shtetl Shock—L.A. Times Hits Roof; Actress Hits the Road,” New York Post, February 18, 2004.
“ludicrous joke” Leveaux interview.
“has many inventive skills” Peter Marks, “A ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ Hopelessly Out of Tune,” Washington Post, February 27, 2004.
“to abound in Russian-Jewish” Jeremy McCarter, “The Musical to Start All Musicals,” New York Sun, February 27, 2004.
“personal and touching” Marc Miller, “Fiddler on the Roof,” January 21, 2005, the atermania.com/story/5558?.
reviewers from publications large and small See, for instance, Linda Winer, “Fiddler on the Roof,” Newsday, lamenting that Molina’s “biddy biddy bums” in “Rich Man” “sound more like a Bing Crosby croon than a playful Talmudic approximation,” Newsday, February 27, 2004.
Ben Brantley devoted an entire paragraph “A Cozy Little McShtetl,” New York Times, February 27, 2004.
“Fiddler with No Jew” Forbidden Broadway: Special Victims Unit, by Gerard Alessandrini, opened on Broadway at the Douglas Fairbanks Theater, December 16, 2004. Original cast album released April 26, 2005, on DRG.
“without the truer feelings” Rosenbaum quoted in Riedel, “Shtetl Shock.”
“In the secular Jewish home” Peter Marks, “A ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ Hopelessly out of Tune,” Washington Post, February 27, 2004.
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