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Wonder of Wonders: A Cultural History of Fiddler on the Roof

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by Alisa Solomon


  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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