![]() ![]() The plot centers on Tevye and Golde's efforts to find husbands for their daughters, but their daughters break tradition by marrying for love rather than having their marriages arranged by Yente, the town's matchmaker. Set in the fictional shtetl of Anatevka, in the Pale of Settlement of the Russian Empire, just before the Revolution of 1905, it tells the story of Tevye, a Jewish milkman with five daughters: Tzeitel, Hodel, Chava, Schprintze, and Bielke. Fiddler on the Roof is a popular 1964 musical based on a set of stories by Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem (pen name for Solomon Rabinovich), with a book by Joseph Stein, music by Jerry Bock, and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick.
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