One Response to “Sholom Aleichem”

1. Elaine Meinzer

   November 1, 2009
   4:34 pm

   I felt Fiddler on the Roof was a very good movie. It displayed a lot of issues that were going on at the time in Russian culture. What shocked me in the story was how Tevye could say Chava was dead to him for awhile because of marrying Fyedka. Also what shocked me was how the Russian Tsar evicted the Jewish residents of Anatevka. It seems like tradition and religion payed an important role in Russian families. The government also seemed to be oppressive of the Jewish people when they had to “maintain order” by routinely rioting against them then evicting them.