Pogrom Fiddler On The Roof

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 fiddler on the roof.

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. Aleichem writes about the pogroms in a story called lekh lekho. In one instance up to 250 000 jews were killed in a specific pogrom and 300 000 children were orphaned. 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.

This story doesn t portray the full horrors and the fears that these pogroms would inflict. Why use the heading. The production hit broadway and for ten years held the record for the longest running musical with more than 3 000 performances.