Berkowitz translation of
Sholem-Aleichem’s screenplay of
Schwartz’s film adaptations from
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
King and I, The (Rodgers and Hammerstein)
King Lear (Shakespeare)
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara
Kishon, Ephraim
Kiss Me, Kate (Porter)
Kitowski, Sławomir
Klezmatics
klezmer music
Knitting on the Roof (album)
Kohner, Hanna Bloch
Kollek, Teddy
Kopit, Arthur
Koufax, Sandy
Kraft, Hy
Krajewska, Monika
Krajewski, Stanislaw
Kramer, Stanley
Krim, Arthur
La Guardia, Fiorello
Lampell, Millard
Landau, Ely
Lapson, Dvora
Lardner, Ring, Jr.
László, Miklós
Lateiner, Joseph
Law and Justice Party (Poland)
Lazar Wolf (character)
“L’Chaim (To Life)” (song)
Lee, Madeline
Lee, Sondra
Lee, Will
left
Lennart, Isobel
Leonov, Yevgeny
Lerner, Alan Jay
Lerner, Sol
Le Roy, Ken
Lester, Julius
Le Sueur, Meridel
“Letter to America” (song)
Leveaux, David
Levene, Sam
Levin, Shmarya
Levine, Jack
liberals
Liebman, Ron
Life
Life Is with People (Zborowski and Herzog)
Lifetime of a Jew, The (Schauss)
Lindsay, John
Lipson, Paul
Litvak, Olga
Lloyd, Norman
Loesser, Frank
Loew, Marcus
Loewe, Frederick
Long Island Press
Look
Los Angeles Times
Lubavitch Hasidim
Lumet, Sidney
Lutheran Church
Lyons, Leonard
Ma’ariv (newspaper)
MacArthur, Harry
Maccabees (teachers’ group)
MacLeish, Archibald
Mad Magazine
Madman, The (Der meturef) (Gordin)
Maids, The (Genet)
“Make the Circle Bigger” (song)
Man in the Moon (Baird and Baird)
Man of La Mancha (Darlon, Leigh, and Wasserman)
March on Washington (1963)
Marianowicz, Antoni
Marisse, Ann
Marks, Peter
Maron, Hanna
Marvelettes
Marxism
Mary Poppins (film)
Masliansky, Zvi Hirsch
Maslow, Sophie
Massine, Léonide
“Matchmaker” (song)
McCallum, Gordon
McCarter, Jeremy
McCarthy, Joseph
McCoy, Rhody
McCullers, Duane
McGovern, George
McKern, Leo
Melting Pot, The (Zangwill)
Membra Solo band
Memorial Prayer (Sholem-Aleichem / Gorin)
Memories of the Shtetl (film / Ghetto Pillow reissue)
Menon, Rajiv
Menorah (monthly)
Merlin, Joanna
Merman, Ethel
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Meyerhold, Vsevolod
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (Shakespeare)
Migenes, Julia
Mikhoels, Solomon
Miklasz, Magdalena
Mikoś, Mateusz
Milk and Honey (Appell and Herman)
Miller, Alan
Miller, Arthur
Miller, Louis
Minsky, Louis
“Miracle of Miracles” (song)
Miranda, Lin-Manuel
Mirele Efros (Gordin)
Mirisch, Walter
Miron, Dan
Mitchell, Ruth
Mocher-Sforim, Mendele
Modelski, Peff
“Modern Children” (Sholem-Aleichem, third Tevye story)
Modern Jewish Canon, The (Wisse)
Moiseyev Dance Ensemble
Molina, Alfred
Morgenthau, Henry, Sr.
Morgn frayhayt (newspaper)
Morgn zhurnal (newspaper)
Morishige, Hisaya
Morris, Oswald
Moscow State Yiddish Theater (GOSET)
Moses
Moses, Robert
Mostel, Joshua
Mostel, Kate Harkin
Mostel, Tobias
Mostel, Zero
Forum and
Harvard lecture by
health problems of
Newsweek cover and
nightmare ballet and
not cast in film
painting career of
Perl’s World of Sholem-Aleichem and
Producers and
Robbins and
Stein routines for
Tony Award and
Topol and
Ulysses in Nighttown and
Motel the tailor or Motl (character)
Mother, The (Brecht)
Mother Courage (Brecht)
Motl, Peysi the Cantor’s Son (Motl peysi dem khazns) (Sholem-Aleichem)
Move (film)
Moves (Robbins ballet)
Moynihan Report
Moyshe the Tailor (Yiddish play)
Mr. Wonderful (Bock, Glickman, and Stein)
Muni, Paul (Muni Weisenfreund)
Museum of Modern Art
Music Theatre International (MTI)
My Fair Lady (Lerner and Loewe)
Nahshon, Edna
Nasser, Gamal Abdel
National Public Radio
National Religious Party (Israel)
National Theater (New York)
National Theater School of Poland
“Nation of Immigrants, A” (Kennedy)
Nazi Germany
invades Poland
“Negation of the Diaspora”
Nelson, Marjorie
Netherlands (Holland)
Newman, Paul
Newsweek
Newton, Huey P.
New York Board of Rabbis
New York City Ballet
New York City Board of Education
New York City Police
New York City public schools
New York Civil Liberties Union
New Yorker
New York Herald Tribune
New York Human Rights Commission
New York Post
New York Review of Books
New York State Legislature
New York stock market crash (1907)
New York Sun
New York Times
Magazine
New York World
New Zealand
Nine Gates to the Hasidic Mysteries (Langer)
Nixon, Richard M.
Noces, Les (Robbins ballet)
North Star Country (Le Sueur)
Novak, Michael
“Now I Have Everything” (song)
Nuremberg trials
N. Y. Export: Opus Jazz (Robbins ballet)
Oakland Jewish Community Center
O’Casey, Sean
Occupy Judaism
Ocean Hill-Brownsville community control battles
community school board
teachers’ strike
Ocean Hill Junior High
Oh Dad, Poor Dad (Kopit)
Oklahoma! (Rodgers and Hammerstein)
Old Country, The (Sholem-Aleichem / Butwin)
Oliver! (Bart)
Orthodox Jews
Osmond Brothers
Oy!hoo Festival
Ozick, Cynthia
Page, Geral
dine
Pale of Settlement
Palestine
Palestinians
Papp, Joseph
Parents and Taxpayers
Parr, Jeanne
Partisan Review
Passover Haggadah
Pasternak, Michael
Pauker, Edmond
Pawnbroker, The (film)
Pendleton, Austin
Penn, Arthur
“People of Dynów’s Past” (Woźniak installation)
Perchik (character)
Peretz, I. L.
Perl, Arnold
Perón, Juan
Picon, Molly
Pilbrow, Richard
Pinczer, Justyna
Pinochet, Augusto
pintele yid
Pintele yid, Dos (The Quintessence of Jewishness) (Yiddish play)
Piro, Richard
Pius XII, Pope
Plain and Fancy (Bock, Harnick, and Stein)
Play of the Week (TV program)
Podair, Jerald
pogroms
Poitier, Sidney
Poland
Fiddler performed in
Polish Communist Party
Polish State Yiddish Theater
Ponazecki, Joe
Popkin, Henry
“Poppa Help Me” (song)
Popular Front
Power of Darkness (Tolstoy)
Prague Spring
Preminger, Otto
Prince, Hal
Prince of the Ghetto (Samuel)
Pritchett, Wendell
Producers, The (film)
Protestant, Catholic, Jew (Herberg)
Puerto Ricans
“Purim Scandal, The” (Sholem-Aleichem / Perl)
Pye, Tom
Pyś-Miklasz, Jolanta
Quijano, Joe
quotas
Rabbinical Council of America
Rabinowitz, Emma (Sholem-Aleichem’s daughter)
Rabinowitz, Misha (Sholem-Aleichem’s son)
Rabinowitz, Nathan Meyer (Robbins’s grandfather)
Rabinowitz, Numa (Sholem-Aleichem’s son)
Rabinowitz, Olga Loyev (Sholem-Aleichem’s wife)
Rabinowitz, Sholem, pen name taken by. See also Sholem-Aleichem; and specific works
Rachel Productions
racial discrimination
Radner, Gilda
Rae, Charlotte
Railroad Stories (Sholem-Aleichem)
Rall, Tommy
Reagan, Ronald
“Redbeard, Mr.”
Red Channels (booklet)
Reform Jews
Reiner, Carl
Reynolds, Frank
Ribicoff, Abraham
Rich, Frank
Richardson, Don
Riedel, Michael
Rieder, Jonathan
Rifkin, Ron
Rise of the Unmeltable Ethnics, The (Novak)
Robbins, Harry (formerly Harry Rabinowitz, Jerome Robbins’s father)
Robbins, Jerome
Ballets: USA and
Broadway revival of 2004 and
Brownsville school and
casting and
choreography for Fiddler and
death of
designers and
direction and shaping of Fiddler by
Dybbuk and
film version and
Forum and
Funny Girl and
hired to direct Fiddler
intermarriage and
investors and
Israeli production and
Jewish identity and
King and I and
“L’Chaim” and
London production and
Marisse dismissal and
maternal grandmother and
Mostel and
nightmare ballet and
Oh Dad and
opening night and
out-of-town tryouts and
Polish production and
racial discrimination and
rehearsals and staging and
research by
responses to Fiddler and
Schwartz’s influence on
“Tradition” and
Warsaw trip and visit to Rozhanka
West Side Story and
Roberts, Bernard (formerly Baruch Rabinowitz, Sholem-Aleichem’s brother)
Robeson, Paul
Rockefeller, Nelson
Rodensky, Shmuel
Rodgers, Richard
Rodney, Howard
Rokem, Freddie
Rome, Harold
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare)
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Theodore
Rosenbaum, Thane
Rosenberg Committee
Rosenbergs, Ethel and Julius
Rosenblatt, Yossele
Rosengarten, Ron
Rosenthal, Jean
Rosh Hashanah
Roskies, David
Rothbort, Samuel
Rothschilds, The (Bock and Harnick)
Rozhanka, Poland
Rubin, Julius
“Rumor, The” (song)
Russia
May laws of 1882
revolution of 1905
revolution of 1917
WW I and
Russian folk tunes
Russians Are Coming, The (film)
Ryan, William
“Sabbath Prayer” (song)
Sachar, Howard
Saint, Eva Marie
Saint Subber, Arnold
Sallah Shabati (film)
Samual Pasternak, or The Scoundrel (Shmuel Pasternak oder Der Oysvurf) (Sholem-Aleichem)
Samuel, Berel
Samuel, Maurice
Sandor, Gluck
Sardou, Victorien
Sartre, Jean-Paul
Scattered and Dispersed (Tsezeyt un tseshpreyt) (Sholem-Aleichem)
Schiff, Jacob
Schildkraut, Joseph
Schildkraut, Rudolph
Schwartz, Maurice
Schwerner, Michael
Scofield, Paul
Scooler, Zvee
Scott, George C.
Screen Actors Guild
Second Avenue Theater
Segal, Edith
Segal, George
Segev, Tom
Seinfeld (TV show)
Sellars, Linus
Senn, Roberta
Sentinel (weekly)
September 11, 2001 attacks
Shahn, Ben
Shakespeare, William. See also specific plays
Shandler, Jeffrey
Shanker, Albert
Shapiro, Edward S.
Shapiro, Tzvi Elimelekh
Sharaff, Irene
Shaw, George Bernard
Sheikevitz, Nokhum Meyer (“Shomer”)
She Loves Me (Bock and Harnick)
Shevelove, Burt
Ship of fools (film)
Sholem-Aleichem (Sholem Rabinowitz). See also Fiddler on the Roof; Tevye der milkhiker; and specific adaptations, characters, plays, stories, and translations
Aronson and
Beilis trial and
birthplace of
Butwins’ translation of
Campbell and
Chagall and
communism and
dark side of
death and funeral of
death of son Misha and
difficulty translating, into musical theater
early writings of
education and youth of
Fiddler and research on
Fiddler criticized for degrading
Fiddler expands audience for
fiddling Jew associated with
finances of
generational loss and
GOSET productions and
humanism of
iconic shtetl and
Israel and
Jewish culture and
Jewison and
London reading tour of
Mostel’s love for<
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New York Yiddish theater aspirations of
opening of Pasternak and
pen name taken by
Perl adaptations of
Perl and Da Silva adaptations of
pogrom letters of
portrait of
progressives and
publishes Tevye cycle as Tevye der milkhiker
radio plays adapted from stories of
reading tours of
returns to Europe after failure of plays
rights and royalties and
Robbins and
Russian-language publications of
Samuel popularizes, in English
Schwartz’s productions of
serial novels published by
Shahn illustrations of
Soviet film Through Tears based on stories of
Soviet revival of, in 1920s
Stein, Bock, and Harnick decide to develop stories of
Tevye stories adapted into Polish Memorial Prayer
travels to America
tuberculosis and
writes autobiography Great Fair
writes Der oytser (The Treasure)
writes essay on Jewish novel, as letter
writes for American Yiddish newspapers
writes plays for Adler
writes Railroad Stories
writes screenplays based on Tvye cycle
writes Tevye stories (see also Tevye; and specific characters, dramatizations, and stories)
Yiddish language and literature and
Sholom Aleichem’s Old Country (Sholom-Aleichem / Perl)
Shomer (Nokhum Meyer Sheikevitch)
“Shomer’s Trial (Shomers mishpet)” (Sholem-Aleichem)
Shop around the Corner, The (film)
Showboat (Kern and Hammerstein)
“Shprintze” (Sholem-Aleichem, sixth Tevye story)
shtetl
Shulamis (Goldfadn)
shund (Yiddish pulp novels and trashy plays)
Sicari, Joe
Silverman, Sarah
Simkhes Toyre
Simpsons, The (TV show)
Singer, I. J.
60 Minutes (TV show)
Sklare, Marshall
Skulnik, Menashe
Slaughter Trail (film)
“Small House of Uncle Thomas, The” (King and I ballet)
Smith, Teddy
Society for the Advancement of Judaism
Solidarity
Sondheim, Stephen
Song of Songs
Sound of Music, The (Rodgers and Hammerstein)
South Africa
South Pacific (Rodgers and Hammerstein)
Soviet Union
Special Cultural Arts Award
Spiro, Jack
Spring Onion company
Stage for Action
Stalin, Joseph
Stanislavsky, Constantin
Steiger, Rod
Stein, Harry
Stein, Joseph
Steinbeck, John
Steinlauf, Michael
Stempenyu (Sholem-Aleichem)
Stewart, Jon
Storm King Art Center
Strasberg, Lee
Stravinsky, Igor
Streisand, Barbra
Strike That Changed New York, The (Podair)
Styron, William
Suez crisis
Summer and Smoke (Williams)
“Sunrise, Sunset” (song)
Supremes
Susskind, David
Svigals, Alicia
Szajnik, Grzegorz
Szurmiej, Jan
Szurmiej, Szymon
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