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

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by Alisa Solomon


  “Tailor Motel Kamzoil, The” (song)

  Tairov, Alexander

  “Tale from Chelm, A” (Sholem-Aleichem / Perl)

  Tales from Shakespeare (Lamb and Lamb)

  Taubman, Howard

  Taylor, Elizabeth

  Taylor, Frances

  Taylor, Robert

  Temptations

  Tencer, Golda

  Ten Commandments (film)

  Tenderloin (Bock and Harnick)

  Tennenbaum, Mr.

  Testament of Freedom, The (Thompson)

  Tevya and His Daughters (Sholem-Aleichem / Perl)

  Tevya (Hecht character)

  Tevye (character). See also Tevye der milkhiker; and specific adaptations, stories, and translations

  Adler as

  Berger as

  Datner as

  Exodus and

  Fierstein as

  Gorin as

  Goz as

  Japanese

  Leonov as

  Lipson as

  Mikhoels as

  Molina as

  Mostel as

  nightmare ballet and

  original Sholem-Aleichem screenplay and

  Rodensky as

  Samuel on, as exemplar

  Schwartz as

  Teddy Smith as

  Topol as

  Yiddishkayt and

  Zur as

  Tevye and His Seven Daughters (Golan film in Hebrew)

  “Tevye Blows a Small Fortune” (Sholem-Aleichem, second Tevye story)

  Tevye der milkhiker (Tevye the dairyman) (Sholem-Aleichem’s Tevye cycle). See also specific adaptations, characters, and stories

  creation and style of

  Gorin adaptation of, in Memorial Prayer

  GOSET production of

  Polish State Yiddish Theater production

  rights to

  Samuel’s radio adaptations of

  Schwartz’s adaptations and films

  Sholem-Aleichem and lack of an ending in

  Sholem-Aleichem first publishes

  Sholem-Aleichem writes eighth story and changes ending

  Sholem-Aleichem writes screenplays based on

  “Tevye Goes to the Land of Israel” (Sholem-Aleichem / Zaslavsky)

  Tevye in the Promised Land (Fishman)

  “Tevye Leaves for the Land of Israel” (Sholem-Aleichem, seventh Tevye story)

  Tevye’s Daughters (Sholem-Aleichem / Butwin)

  Stein and Harnick base musical on

  “Tevye’s Dream” (song)

  “Tevye Strikes It Rich” (Sholem-Aleichem, first Tevye story)

  “Tevye the Dairyman” (Sholem-Aleichem / Perl)

  Tevye (Tuvia ha-Kholev) (Sholem-Aleichem / Berkowitz)

  “Tevye Wins a Fortune” (Sholem-Aleichem / Butwin)

  Tew

  Thissen, Judith

  Thomas, Mitch

  Thomas Crown Affair, The (film)

  Thomashefsky, Boris

  Thompson, Randall

  Thoroughly Modern Millie (film)

  Thousand Clowns, A (film)

  Through Tears (Skvoz Slezy) (film)

  Thurber, James

  Time

  Tito

  To Broadway with Love (World’s Fair spectacle)

  Todd, Michael (Avrom Goldbogen)

  Tog, Der (newspaper)

  “To Life,” See “L’Chaim”

  Tolstoy, Leo

  “To Marry for Love” (song)

  Topol, Chaim

  “Topsy-Turvy” (song)

  Toren, Roni

  Toynbee, Arnold

  “Tradition” (song)

  Treasure, The (Der oytser) (Sholem-Aleichem)

  Treasury of Jewish Folklore, A (Ausubel)

  Trumbo, Dalton

  Turgenev, Ivan

  Twain, Mark

  Tzeitel, Tsaytl, or Tzaytl (character).

  Tzezeyt un tseshpreyt (Sholem-Aleichem). See Scattered and Dispersed

  Ukraine

  Ulysses in Nighttown (Barkentin)

  United Artists

  United Electrical Workers Union

  United Federation of Teachers (UFT)

  United Scenic Union

  U.S. Army

  U.S. Census

  U.S. Congress

  U.S. Senate

  U.S. State Department

  U.S. Supreme Court

  Unzer (“Our”) theater

  Up the Down Staircase (film)

  Uris, Leon

  Vakhtangov, Evgeny

  Valse, La (Balanchine ballet)

  Van Doren, Mark

  Van Fleet, Jo

  Vanished World (Vishniac)

  “Vanishing American Jew, The” (Look article)

  Varhayt (newspaper)

  Variety

  Vietnam War

  Village I Knew, The (Maslow dance)

  village priest (character)

  Vilna Troupe

  Vishniac, Roman

  Vitebsk (Chagall’s hometown)

  Vladek, B.

  Waa-Mu show (student revue)

  Waiting for Godot (Beckett)

  Walberg, Betty

  Walker, Nancy

  Wall, The (Hersey)

  Wallach, Eli

  Wandering Stars (Sholem-Aleichem)

  Warnke, Nina

  Warsaw

  Warsaw Ghetto

  Washington Post

  Washington Star

  Waterston, Sam

  Way to Buenos Aires, The (Yiddish play)

  WBAI (radio station)

  Weidman, Jerome

  Weinstein, Henry

  Weisenfreund, Muni (later Paul Muni)

  Weiss, Marek

  Welles, Orson

  “We Shall Overcome”

  West Side Story (Bernstein, Sondheim, Laurents, and Robbins)

  film

  “We’ve Never Missed a Sabbath Yet” (song)

  We Will Never Die (Hecht radio pageant)

  “When Messiah Comes” (song)

  White, Theodor H.

  Wilder, Gene

  Williams, John

  Wish You Were Here (Rome)

  Wisse, Ruth

  Wolitz, Seth

  Wolper, David

  Wonder, Stevie

  World of Sholom Aleichem, The (Perl dramatization)

  Play of the Week presentation of

  World of Sholom Aleichem, The (Samuel book)

  World’s Fair (New York, 1964)

  World War I

  World War II

  Woźniak, Ewa

  Yehoash

  Yente (character)

  Yidcore band

  Yiddish Art Theater

  Yiddish classicism

  Yiddishkayt

  Yiddish language

  Israel and

  Mostel and

  Yiddish literature

  Yiddish songs

  Yiddish theater

  Dybbuk and

  Sholem-Aleichem and

  Yidishe folks-bibliotek, Di (A Jewish Popular Library) (Sholem-Aleichem)

  Yidishe neshome, di (The Jewish Soul) (Yiddish play)

  Yidisher kempfer (newspaper)

  Yidishes tageblat (newspaper)

  Yinglish

  YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

  Yizkerbikher (memorial books)

  Yom Kippur

  “Yom Kippur Scandal” (Sholem-Aleichem)

  Young Jewish Folksingers

  Your Hit Parade (TV show)

  Your Show of Shows (TV show)

  Yugoslavia

  Zangwill, Israel

  Zaslavsky, Rudolf

  Zborowski, Mark

  Zeek, Mr.

  Zeifert, Moyshe

  Zion films

  Zionism

  Zionist Organization of America

  Zipprodt, Patricia

  Zukor, Adolph

  Zur, Bomba

  Zurawiec massacre

  ALSO BY ALISA SOLOMON

  Re-Dressing the Canon:

  Essays
on Theater and Gender

  The Reverend Billy Project:

  From Rehearsal Hall to Super Mall with the Church of Life After Shopping

  (EDITOR, BY SAVITRI D AND BILL TALEN)

  Wrestling with Zion:

  Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

  (COEDITOR, WITH TONY KUSHNER)

  The Queerest Art:

  Essays on Lesbian and Gay Theater

  (COEDITOR, WITH FRAMJI MINWALLA)

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  ALISA SOLOMON teaches at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, where she directs the Arts & Culture concentration in the MA program. A theater critic and general reporter for the Village Voice from 1983 to 2004, she has also contributed to the New York Times, The Nation, Tablet, The Forward, and other publications. Her first book, Re-Dressing the Canon: Essays on Theater and Gender, won the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism. She lives in New York City.

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data

  Solomon, Alisa, 1956–

  Wonder of wonders: a cultural history of Fiddler on the roof / Alisa Solomon.—First edition.

  pages cm

  Includes bibliographical references and index.

  ISBN 978-0-8050-9260-8

  1. Bock, Jerry. Fiddler on the roof. 2. Stein, Joseph. Fiddler on the roof. 3. Sholem Aleichem, 1859–1916. 4. Musicals—New York (State)—New York—20th century—History and criticism. 5. Theater, Yiddish—New York (State)—New York—History—20th century. 6. Jewish theater—New York (State)—New York—History—20th century. I. Title.

  ML410.B661S65 2013

  782.1'4—dc23

  2013003900

  First Edition 2013

  eISBN 9780805095296

 

 

 


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