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Read and discuss the books that inspired Broadway musicals, enriching understanding and enjoyment of both!
This month, we are reading Tevye the Dairyman by Sholem Aleichem, the series of short stories that inspired the musical, Fiddler on the Roof.
Sholem Aleichem is one of the most prominent Yiddish writers of his time, and his character Tevye, one of the most iconic personalities of Yiddish literature. Tevye is the primary narrator of tales of his and his family's lives that take place in the fictional shtetl of Anatevka. Through Tevye, with humor and heartbreak, we are immersed in the personal and societal changes experienced by Ashkenazi Jews at the turn of the 20th century in the Pale of Settlement of Imperial Russia.
Tevye the Dairyman was adapted into the 1964 musical Fiddler on the Roof, music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein. It was directed and choreographed for the stage by Jerome Robbins. It was later memorialized in the 1971 film of the same name, receiving eight Academy Awards nominations.
Copies of the Tevye the Dairyman will be available at the Northeast Library, or you can place a hold yourself from the catalog.
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