Asch, Sholem
“As Much as That” (song)
Atkinson, Brooks
Attle, John C.
Auschwitz
Australia
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Ausubel, Nathan
AWARE
“Baby Birds” (song)
Bagels and Yox (revue)
Bailey, Pearl
Baird, Bil
Baird, Cora
Balanchine, George
Baldwin, James
Ballade (Robbins ballet)
Ballets: USA
Ballet Theater
Barnes, Clive
Bass, Alfie
Bauer, Jamie
Bayes, Sammy
Beck, Glenn
Beckett, Samuel
Beilis, Menachem Mendel
Belafonte, Harry
Ben-Ami, Jacob
Benchley, Robert
Ben Hur (film)
Benjamin, Richard
Berdeen, Robert
Berdichevsky, Micah
Berg, Gertrude
Berger, Anna Vita
Berger, Juliusz
Berkowitz, Joel
Berkowitz, Y. D. (Sholem-Aleichem’s son-in-law)
Berman, Shelley
Bernardi, Herschel
Bernstein, Aline
Bernstein, Leonard
Beyond the Melting Pot (Glazer and Moynihan)
Bezmozgis, David
Bialik, Haim Nachman
Bialystok Puppet Division
Bianco, Lorenzo
Bikel, Theodore
Birnel, Bruce
Black Fiddler (TV documentary)
blacklist
Black Panthers
Blacks, The (Genet)
Blaming the Victim (Ryan)
Blitzstein, Marc
blood libel
Bloody Hoax, The (Der blutiger shpas) (Sholem-Aleichem)
Blues for Mister Charlie (Baldwin)
Blum, Barry
Bluzhever, Rebbe
Bock, Jerry
Bodin, Duane
Body Beautiful, The (Bock, Harnick, and Stein)
“Bontche the Silent (Bontche Schweig),” (Sholem-Aleichem / Perl)
Borschtcapades (revue)
Bosley, Tom
“Boston Beguine” (song)
“Bottle Dance” (dance)
Boyle, Robert
Brand, Phoebe
Brantley, Ben
Brecht, Bertolt
Brenner, Yosef Haim
Broadway Central Hotel Caterers
Broken Alliance (Kaufman)
Bronx Express (Dymov)
Brooks, Mel
Brothers Ashkenazi, The (Di brider ashkenazi) (Singer / Schwartz)
Brown, Frances
Brownsville Community Council
Brownsville school protests
Brown v. Board of Education
Brustein, Robert
“Bubble Bursts, The” (Sholem-Aleichem / Butwin)
Buloff, Joseph
Burning Lights (Chagall)
Burton, Richard
Buttons, Red
Butwin, Frances
Butwin, Joseph
Butwin, Julius
Cabaret (Kander, Ebb, and Masteroff)
Cabot, Tony
Caesar, Sid
Cafe Crown (Kraft and Hague)
Cahan, Abe
Calloway, Cab
Camelot (Lerner and Loewe)
Cameri Theater (Tel Aviv)
Campbell, Leslie (later Jitu Weusi)
Canarsie High School
Canby, Vincent
Cannon, Beverly
Capa, Cornell
Caplan, Micah
Carnovsky, Morris
Carousel (Rodgers and Hammerstein)
Carr, Jay
Carter, Lillian
Carter, Olga
Cassidy, Jack
Catholic Church
Catholic Film Newsletter
Cedar, Joseph
Chabad telethon
Chagall, Bella
Chagall, Marc
Chaikin, Joseph
Chaney, James
Chava or Khave (character)
Chavez, Hugo
Chekhov, Anton
Chelm folk stories
Cherry Orchard, The (Chekhov)
Chicago Daily Tribune
Chile
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (film)
Chronicler (weekly)
Cincinnati Kid, The (film)
Civil Rights Congress
civil rights movement
Clurman, Harold
Coca, Imogene
Coe, Fred
Cohen, Israel
Cohn, Roy
Colbert, Stephen
Cold War
Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare)
Commentary
Committee for the Negro in the Arts
Communism
Company (Soundheim)
Concert, The (Robbins ballet)
Confessions of Nat Turner, The (Styron)
Conforti, Gino
constructivism
Convy, Bert
Cooke, Terence Cardinal
Cooper, Saul
Cosmopolitans, The (Kalman)
Counterattack
counterculture
Coward, Noel
Crown Publishers
Crucible, The (Miller)
Cunningham, Sarah
Curtis, Tony
Czechoslovakia
Daley, Richard
Damon, Stuart
“Dances of the Jewish People” (Lapson)
Darnton, Robert
Da Silva, Howard
Datner, Nathan
Daughters of Tevye, The (radio play)
David ben David (Sholem-Aleichem)
Davis, Moshe
Davis, Ossie
Davis, Sammy, Jr.
Dawidowicz, Lucy
Day, Doris
Dayan, Asaf
Dayan, Moshe
“Dear, Sweet Sewing Machine” (song)
Debuskey, Merle
Debussy, Claude
De Cormier, Robert
Decter, Midge
Dee, Ruby
De Mille, Agnes
DeMille, Cecil B.
Denmark
De-Novo troupe
Deputy, The (Hochhuth)
Detroit News
Diary of Anne Frank, The (Goodrich and Hackett)
Dignity Memorial
Dolan, Bobby
Donlevy, Brian
Do Re Mi (Styne, Comden, and Green)
Doyle, Clyde
“Do You Love Me?” (song)
“Dreyfus in Kasrilevka” (Sholem-Aleichem / Butwin)
Drucker, Mort
Durning, Charles
Dust Bowl Ballads (Maslow dance)
Dybbuk, The (Ansky play)
Dybbuk, The (Robbins and Bernstein ballet)
Dymov, Osip
Dynów, Poland
Earth Is the Lord’s, The (Heschel)
Eastern Europe
East Side, West Side (TV show)
Ed Sullivan Show (TV show)
Educational Alliance
Efros, Avrom
Egypt
Eichmann, Adolf
Eiseman Junior High School
Elder, Lonne
Elman, Irving
Empty Noose, The (radio documentary)
“Enchanted Tailor, The” (Sholem-Aleichem)
Enders, Howard
Enter Laughing (Stein)
Entin, Joel
Eshkol, Levi
Eternal Light, The (radio show)
Euripides
Everett, Tanya
Everyman’s Talmud
Exodus (Uris)
Exter, Alexandra
Family Affair, A (Goldman, Goldman, and Kander)
Fancy Free (Robbins and Bernstein ballet)
“Far from the Home I Love” (song)
Faulk, John Henry
Faust (Got, mentsh, un tayvl) (Gordin)
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Federal Communications Commission
Federal Drug Administration
Federal Theater Project
Feller, Fred
Felsenstein, Walter
Feminine Mystique (Friedan)
Ferlak, Maciej
“Fiddle, The” (Sholem-Aleichem / Da Silva and Perl)
fiddler image
Fiddler on the Roof (Bock, Harnick, and Stein). See also Tevye der milkhiker; and specific individuals and works
act 1 finale
act 2 problems
awards and honors
bar mitzvahs and
Bock and Harnick begin score
box office
Brownsville school production of
casting and
Chagall and
costume design and
criticisms of
cultural resonance of
dance and
designers and
dialectics of
ending adjusted out of town
fan letters and
folk circle and
foreign productions of (see also specific locations)
Hasidism and
High Holidays observance and
idea first developed
intermarriage anxieties and
investors and cost of
Israeli productions of
Israeli responses to
Jewish identity and
JFK and
lighting designer
London production of
national tours of
opening night
original cast album
origins of (see Sholem-Aleichem; and specific adaptations, characters, stories, and translations)
out-of-town try-outs, Detroit
out-of-town try-outs, Washington
plot details created in last Tevye story
Polish productions of
popularity of
Prince agrees to produce
profits and
radical culture and
rehearsals and staging of
research consultant on
reviews and
revivals of
rights and licensing of
Robbins hired to direct
score covered
score written (see also specific songs)
set design
Sholem-Aleichem and (see specific adaptations, stories, novels, plays, and translations)
Stein drafts book for
success of
title found
Tony Awards and
touring productions
tradition as theme of
Fiddler on the Roof (film)
Academy Awards and
box office
casting
Christmas sing-alongs
collectibles and
Holocaust and
Howard University benefit screening of
Jewish masculinity and
Jewison directs
Mad Magazine satire of
marketing and publicity and
Poland and
reviews
rights acquired
stage production vs.
synagogue constructed for
Yugoslavia location and sets
“Fiddler on the Roof” goes Latin (album)
“Fiddler Who Went on the Roof, The” (Almagor)
Fiddlin’ on Ya Roof (album)
Fielding, Anne
Fierstein, Harvey
Fierstein, Irving
Fierstein, Jacqueline
Figueroa, Maritza
Finian’s Rainbow (Harburg, Saidy, and Lane)
Finland
Fiorello! (Bock, Harnick, and Weidman)
Fishbein, J. I.
Fishberg, Morris
Fishman, Tzvi
Flag Is Born, A (Hecht pageant)
flashen-tantz
Flood, The (Der mabl) (Sholem-Aleichem)
Fokin, Michel
“Folk dances for the Jewish Festival” (Lapson)
Folksay (Maslow dance)
Footnote (film)
Forbidden Broadway (revue)
Ford Foundation
Forverts (newspaper)
France
Frańczak, Zygmunt
Franklin, Aretha
Fraye arbeter shtime (newspaper)
Free World, The (Bezmozgis)
French Connection, The (film)
Frey, Leonard
Friedan, Betty
Friedkin, William
Funny Girl (Styne, Merrill, and Lennart)
Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, A (Sondheim, Shevelove, and Gelbart)
Fyedka (character)
Galicia
Gans, Herbert
gay liberation movement
Genesis
Genet, Jean
Germany
Gersten, Bertha
“Get Thee Out (Lekh Lekho)” (Sholem-Aleichem, eighth Tevye story)
“Get Thee Out” (song)
Ghetto Pillow (film)
Gibson, Mel
Gielgud, John
Gilbert and Sullivan
Gilford, Jack
Gilman, Richard
Glickman, Will
Godik, Giora
Goebbels, Joseph
Gogol, Nikolai
Golan, Menachem
Goldberg, B. Z.
Goldbergs, The (radio and TV show)
Golde (character)
“Golden Peacock, The” (folk song)
Goldfadn, Avrum
Goldman, James
Goldman, William
Goldsmith, Emanuel S.
Gomulka, Wladyslaw
Goodbye, Columbus (Roth)
Goodman, Andrew
Gordin, Yankev
Goren, Arthur A.
Goren, B.
Gorin, Girgory
Gorky, Maxim
Gormé, Eydie
GOSET. See Moscow State Yiddish Theater
Gould, Elliott
Goz, Harry
Graham, Martha
Grand Prize, The (Dos Groyse gevins) (Sholem-Aleichem)
Grand Theater (New York)
Grand Theater (Poland)
Granovsky, Alexander
Grant, Lee
Great Ages and Ideas of the Jewish People (Schwarz)
Great Fair, The (Sholem-Aleichem)
Green, Gilbert
Greene, Graham
Greene, Milton
Grim, M.
Group Theater
Gruza, Jerzy
Guardian
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (film)
Guthrie, Tyrone
Guys and Dolls (Loesser, Swerling, and Burrows
Gypsy (Styne, Sondheim, and Laurents)
Habima Theater (Tel Aviv)
Hadassah
Hague, Albert
Hamlet (Shakespeare)
Hammerstein, Oscar, II
Happy Hunting (Karr, Dubey, Lindsay, and Crouse)
Harburg, Yip
Hard to Be a Jew (Shver tzu zayn a yid) (Sholem-Aleichem)
Harlem on My Mind (art exhibition)
Harnick, Choni
Harnick, Sheldon
Harrington, Michael
Harris, Barbara
Hasidim
Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment)
Haskins, Sheila
“Hatikvah”
Hausner, Gideon
Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (film)
Hebrew Actors’ Union
Hebrew Bible
Hebrew language
Hebrew Lesson (Capa photograph)
Hecht, Ben
Hello, Dolly! (Herman and Stewart)
Herberg, Will
Herman, Dovid
Herman, Jerry
Hersey, John
Herzl, Theodor
Herzog, Elizabeth
Heschel, Abraham Joshua
/> “High School, The (Gymnasia),” (Sholem-Aleichem)
High Spirits (Martin and Gray)
Hildyard, David
Hirsch, Stephan
Histadrut
Hitchcock, Alfred
Hitler, Adolf
Hoberman, J.
Hochhuth, Rolf
Hodel or Hodl (character)
“Hodl” (Sholem-Aleichem, fourth Tevye story)
Hoffman, Dustin
Holiday (Sholem-Aleichem / Perl)
Hollywood Ten
Holocaust
Holofcener, Larry
hometown societies (landsmanshaftn)
Horatio (Harnick)
House in Vitebsk (Chagall drawing)
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
Hovey, Serge
Howard University
Howe, Irving
How to Succeed in Business (Loesser)
Hughes, Langston
Humphrey, Doris
I Can Get It for You Wholesale (Rome and Weidman)
“If I Were a Rich Man” (song)
“If I Were a Rich Man Tour”
“If I Were Rothschild” (Sholem-Aleichem)
If I Were You (Hard to Be a Jew), (Sholem-Aleichem / Schwarz)
Imperiale, Anthony
Inbal Yemenite Dance Theater
Inspector General, The (Gogol)
International Folk Music Journal
International Fur and Leather Workers Union
In the Heat of the Night (film)
In the Heights (Miranda)
Iran
Israel
Six-Day War (1967)
Jacobson, Matthew Frye
Jaffe, Sam
James, Charles
Japan
Jaruzelski, Wojciech
Javits, Jacob
Jazz Singer, The (film)
J. B. (Macleish)
Jefferson, Thomas
Jerusalem Post
Jewish Community Centers
Jewish Cultural Festival of Kraków
Jewish Currents
“Jewish Dances of the Year Round” (Lapson)
Jewish Defense League (JDL)
Jewish Education Committee
Jewish Festivals, The (Schauss)
Jewish Frontier
Jewish Heart, The (Dos Yidishe harts) (Lateiner)
Jewish Heritage Celebration (Philadelpia)
Jewish High Holidays
Jewish Museum (New York)
Jewish Theological Seminary
Jewish Welfare Board
Jewish Woman and Her Home (Goldin)
Jewison, Norman
Jim Kooperkop (ARTEF play)
Job
Johnson, Lyndon B.
Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee
Jolson, Al
Juno (Stein and Blitzstein)
Kaczyński, Lech
Kael, Pauline
Kahana, Tamara
Kahane, Meir
Kahn, Albert
Kallen, Horace
Kalman, Nadia
Kaminska, Ida
Kander, John
Kanin, Garson
Karinska
Karnilova, Maria
Katyn massacre
Katz, Aron
Kaufman, Jonathan
Kaye, Danny
Kazan, Sandra
Kazin, Alfred
Keith, Nancy
Kellin, Mike
Kellman, Ellen
Kennedy, Jackie
Kennedy, John F.
Kennedy, Robert F.
Kepten, Moshe
Kerr, Walter
Kessler, David
Kessner, Carole S.
“Khave” (Sholem-Aleichem, fifth Tevye story). See also Chava
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