Tevye’s repeated “on the one hand … on the other hand” soliloquies resonate for the entire audience and give this play its power.

The 1939 Yiddish-language film "Tevye," shot on a Long Island potato farm, was adapted from Sholom Aleichem's short-story collection "Tevye the Dairyman," first published in 1894. Aleichem's stories ...

But the actor was, by far, best known for his embodiment of Tevye the Dairyman in “Fiddler on the Roof,” first in the Israeli and London stagings and then in the 1971 movie that brought the ...