The story of fiddler on the roof ends sadly with an uncertain future.
Pogrom fiddler on the roof.
Pogroms violent riots aimed at the massacre or persecution of a particular ethnic or religious group were unfortunately well known to both feiga shamis of feiga s choice and teyve s creator sholem aleichem.
In 1914 his pogrom experience influenced his tevye story get thee out where a beleaguered tevye is seen packing his belongings as he prepares to leave his home after an official ethnic cleansing fiddler on broadway fifty years later those tevye stories became fiddler on the roof.
Pogrom scenes from the 1971 film fiddler on the roof.
Aleichem writes about the pogroms in a story called lekh lekho.
Russian constable fiddler on the roof and thus tevye the beloved milkman from fiddler on the roof learns that his shtetl of anatevka will soon have a pogrom.
This story doesn t portray the full horrors and the fears that these pogroms would inflict.
The production hit broadway and for ten years held the record for the longest running musical with more than 3 000 performances.