A pogrom is one of the central events in the play fiddler on the roof which is adapted from russian author sholem aleichem s tevye the dairyman stories.
Pogrom fiddler on the roof.
Aleichem writes about the pogroms in a story called lekh lekho.
Why use the heading.
In 1914 his pogrom experience influenced his tevye story get thee out where a beleaguered tevye is seen packing his belongings as he prepares to leave his home after an official ethnic cleansing fiddler on broadway fifty years later those tevye stories became fiddler on the roof.
The story of fiddler on the roof ends sadly with an uncertain future.
The production hit broadway and for ten years held the record for the longest running musical with more than 3 000 performances.
Pogroms violent riots aimed at the massacre or persecution of a particular ethnic or religious group were unfortunately well known to both feiga shamis of feiga s choice and teyve s creator sholem aleichem.
Pogrom scenes from the 1971 film fiddler on the roof.