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 ...