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A 4 page paper which examines the collection of Yiddish short stories entitled Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories by Sholem Aleichem and the 1971 musical film, upon which it was based, Fiddler on the Roof (also referred to as Tevye). Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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File: TS14_Tevye.doc
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is his charismatic presence which enhances every frame of the film. The theatrical release was based on Sholem Aleichems early twentieth-century collection of Yiddish folk tales, Tevye the Dairyman
and the Railroad Stories. From what is known about Sholem Aleichem (real name: Solomon Rabinowitz), the character of Tevye must have been modeled after himself, for he, like Tevye
and his Russian Jewish countrymen, were forced to leave the Tsarist oppressive "porgroms" for uncertain life elsewhere. The very pen name the storyteller gave himself, which is Yiddish for
"How do you do?" conveys that he did not take himself too seriously (Roskies 38). Yiddish folklore had survived for centuries as a spoken art form, passed down from parent
to child. At the dawn of the twentieth century, unwelcome changes brought on by the Russian Tsarist regime threatened to destroy the time-honored customs of the Jewish peasant class.
Sholem Aleichem feared that the stories which chronicled the harsh Jewish life experience would be forever lost. Heavily influenced by the folk stories and religious writings of his
Yiddish ancestors, he composed a collection of stories entitled, Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories. What must be noted is that the story of Tevye the dairyman was
only one of 21 collected stories. However, it was the force of Tevyes energetic personality which made him appear dominant in the Aleichem work. Perhaps the authors personal
identification with the struggling milkman made his story the most powerful of all the tales. Tevye was symbolic of the old world Orthodox Jew, whose optimism refused to be
shaken by the hardships he was constantly forced to endure. In the book, the fictional Tevyes engaging conversational style is portrayed through his dialogue with Sholem Aleichem.
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