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