The Strange Power of ‘Fiddler’

Miracle of Miracles

What is it about Sholem Aleichem’s stories of a poor milkman in the shtetl that has audiences bewitched for nearly 50 years after the smash musical debuted on Broadway? Jen Vafidis on a new cultural history of Fiddler.

Published Oct. 28, 2013 

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