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Tevye

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Tevye
pious dairyman concerned with marrying off his seven beautiful daughters. [Yid. Lit.: Tevye’s Daughters; Am. Musical: Fiddler on the Roof in On Stage, 468]


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The timeless story, set in a village in Russia, follows the travails of Tevye the dairyman, who struggles, with humour and humility, to raise five daughters.
Tevye watches bemused as his daughters marry against his will and his people live as outsiders under the persistent threat of racist violence.
Digging deep It is the story of tradition (and breaking it), focuses on Tevye and his family -- his wife and five daughters -- set in pre-Revolutionary Czarist Russia, in a small village called Anatevka.
 
 
 
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