Wonder of Wonders: A Cultural History of Fiddler on the Roof (71 page)

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.
Tevye der milkhiker: A drame
. In
Ale verk fun sholem-aleykhem,
xxv: 167–235. New York: Sholem-aleykem folksfont oysgabe, 1923.

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Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor’s Son
. Translated by Aliza Shevrin. New York: Penguin classics, 2009.

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Tevye the Milkman and the Railroad Stories
. Translated by Hillel Halkin. New York: Schocken Books, 1987. All quotations from the Tevye stories come from this volume.

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Tevye’s Daughters.
Translated by Frances Butwin. New York: Crown, 1949.

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Tsezeyt un tseshpreyt, ale verk fun sholem-aleykehm
. Vol. 4:
Dramatishe shriftn.
New York: Sholem-aleykhem foksfond oysgabe, 1925.

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Wandering Stars
. Translated by Aliza Shevrin. New York: Viking, 2009.

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.
Di yudishe folks-bibliotek: A bukh fir litera
t
ur, kritik un vissenshaft
. Kiev: Sholem-Aleichem, 1888; National Yiddish Book Center electronic edition, Steven Spielberg Digital Yiddish Library, No. 02379.

Silver, M. M.
Our Exodus: Leon Uris and the Americanization of Israel’s Founding Story.
Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2010.

Simonson, Robert.
The Gentleman Press Agent: Fifty Years in the Theatrical Trenches with Merle Debuskey
. New York: Applause Theatre and Cinema Books, 2010.

Sklare, Marshall.
Jewish Identity on the Suburban Frontier: A Study of Group Survival in the Open Society
. New York: Basic Books, 1967.

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Observing America’s Jews
. Edited and with a foreword by Jonathan D. Sarna. Hanover, NH: Brandeis University Press, 1993.

Sleeper, Jim.
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Sorin, Gerald.
The Jewish People in America
, Vol. 3:
A Time for Building: The Third Migration, 1880–1920.
Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.

Sponberg, Arvid F.
Broadway Talks: What Professionals Think about Commercial Theater in America.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1991.

Staub, Michael E., ed.
The Jewish 1960s: An American Sourcebook
. Lebanon, NH: Brandeis University Press, 2004.

Stein, Joseph.
Juno.
New York: Samuel French, 1959.

Stein, Joseph, Jerry Bock, and Sheldon Harnick.
Fiddler on the Roof.
New York: Limelight Editions, 2002. Tenth printing. Originally published by Crown, 1964. Music and lyrics © Sunbeam Music Corp.

Stein, Joseph, and Will Glickman, with lyrics by Arnold B. Horwitt and music by Albert Hague
. Plain and Fancy.
New York: Random House, 1955.

Steinlauf, Michael.
Bondage to the Dead: Poland and the Memory of the Holocaust.
Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1996.

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. “Jewish Theater in Poland.” In Michael Steinlauf and Anthony Polansky, eds.,
Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry
, vol. 16 (Oxford, UK, and Portland, OR: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2003), 71–91.

Steinlauf, Michael, and Antony Polansky, eds.
Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry
. Vol. 16:
Focusing on Jewish Popular Culture in Poland and Its Afterlife
. Oxford, UK, and Portland, OR: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2003.

Swain, Joseph B.
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Szajnik, Grzegorz.
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Dubiecko: Przedsiebiorstwo Budowlano, 2008. (“Polish, Ukrainian, Jewish Communities in the Municipality of Dynów”). Unpublished translation: Ursula Kudelski.

Taylor, Clarence.
Knocking at Our Own Door: Milton A. Galamison and the Struggle to Integrate New York City Schools.
Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001.

Thissen, Judith. “Reconsidering the Decline of the New York Yiddish Theatre in the Early 1900s.”
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44:2 (November 2003): 173–97.

Thomashefsky, Boris.
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Topol.
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. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1981.

Uris, Leon.
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Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1958.

Urofsky, Melvin I.
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. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, Bison Book Edition, 1995; previously published Garden City, NY: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1975.

Vaill, Amanda.
Somewhere: The Life of Jerome Robbins
. New York: Broadway Books, 2006.

Veidlinger, Jeffrey.
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. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000.

Vishniac, Roman.
Di farshvundene velt—The Vanished World
. Edited by Raphael Abramovitch. New York: Forward Association, 1947.

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Polish Jews: A Pictorial Record.
New York: Schocken Books, 1988; originally published 1947.

Waife-Goldberg, Marie.
My Father, Sholom Aleichem.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1968.

Warnke, Nina. “Immigrant Popular Culture as Contested Sphere: Yiddish Music Halls, the Yiddish Press, and the Processes of Americanization, 1900–1910.”
Theatre Journal
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. “Of Plays and Politics: Sholem Aleichem’s First Visit to America.” In Deborah Dash Moore, ed.,
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Wasserstein, Bernard.
Vanishing Diaspora: The Jews in Europe since 1945
. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996.

Weidman, Jerome, George Abbott, Jerry Bock, and Sheldon Harnick.
Fiorello!
New York: Random House, 1960.

Weitzner
,
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Sholem Aleichem in the Theater.
Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1994.

Wenig, Larry.
From Nazi Inferno to Soviet Hell
. Hoboken, NJ: Ktav Publishing House, 2000. Memoir, beginning in Dynów.

Whitfield, Stephen J.
The Culture of the Cold War.
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Wishengrad, Morton.
The Eternal Light: Twenty-Six Radio Plays.
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Wisse, Ruth.
The Modern Jewish Canon: A Journey through Language and Culture.
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Wolitz, Seth L. “The Americanization of Tevye, or Boarding the Jewish Mayflower.”
American Quarterly
40:4 (1988): 514–36.

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. “Sholem Aleichem in America: The Story of a Culture Hero.” Catalog for exhibition at YIVO, May 17, 1990–March 15, 1991. My thanks to curator Jeffrey Shandler for sharing source materials from this catalog with me.

Zangwill, Israel.
The Melting Pot
. New York: Macmillan, 1914.

Zborowski, Mark, and Elizabeth Herzog.
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New York: Schocken Books, 1995; originally published by International Universities Press in 1952.

Zipperstein, Steven J.
Imagining Russian Jewry: Memory, History, Identity
. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999.

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. “Underground Man: The Curious Case of Mark Zborowski and the Writing of a Modern Jewish Classic.”
Jewish Review of Books
, no. 2 (Summer 2010): 38–42.

Zylbercweig, Zalmen.
Leksikon fun yidishn teatr
. 6 volumes, published over the period 1931 to 1969 in New York, Mexico, and Warsaw. National Yiddish Book Center electronic edition, Steven Spielberg Digital Yiddish Library, numbers 01089 to 01094.

Most of the material on Sholem-Aleichem can be found in volume 4: 3309 to 3578. This extraordinary compendium of biographical material, plot summaries, production descriptions, and quotations from reviews has been rendered user-friendly by the librarian Faith Jones, who indexed it at the Dorot Jewish Division at the New York Public Library.

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Yidisher kunst-teatr in amerike
. At the time of his death in 1972
,
Zylbercweig was working on a book about Maurice Schwartz’s Yiddish Art Theater and on a seventh volume of the
Leksikon fun yidishn teatr
. The latter, including a 371-page section on Schwartz, covering the Yiddish Art Theater from 1918 to 1924, was in galleys that were never published, until, that is, 2011, when Steve Lasky of the Museum of Family History digitized and posted it online at
http://www.museu
moffamilyhistory.com/yt/yata.htm
.

ARCHIVAL AUDIO/VIDEO

Jerry Bock collection of audiovisual recordings. *L (Special) 03-01. Rodgers and Hammerstein Archive, New York Public Library.

Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick Dialogue. Videotaped by the New York Public Library’s Theatre on Film and Tape Archive at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, NY, May 12, 1975.

Fiddler on the Roof.
Videotape of performance starring Zero Mostel.
1976.
TOFT. Thank you to the Jerome Robbins Trust for permission to view it.

Fresh Air
: Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick interviewed by Terry Gross, National Public Radio. n.d. 1988 and June 21, 2004.

Maslow, Sophie.
The Village I Knew
. Videotape of performance by the Sophie Maslow Dance Company. Filmed onstage at the Theater of Riverside Church, New York, New York, May 1977. NY Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dance Collection.

Music Division Oral History Project, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Nancy Hamburger Sureck interview: Jerry Bock, November 12, 2002; Sheldon Harnick, January 16, 2003.

Jerry Robbins. “Production Notes on Fiddler on the Roof.” *MGZTL 4-3119, JRPP.

Joseph Stein in dialogue with Morton Gottlieb. Videotaped by the New York Public Library’s Theatre on Film and Tape Archive at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, NY, December 18, 1973.

Weekend Edition Sunday
. Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick interviewed by Liane Hansen, National Public Radio, May 7, 2000.

RADIO AND COMMERCIAL AUDIO RECORDINGS

Adderley, Cannonball.
Cannonball Adderley’s Fiddler on the Roof
. Original release: Capitol ST-2116, 1964. Reissue: Capitol 14309, 1991. CD.

Bikel, Theodore.
Theodore Bikel Sings Jewish Folk Songs
. Elektra, 1958. LP.

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Theodore Bikel Sings More Jewish Folk Songs
. Elektra, 1959. LP.

The Eternal Light

“The Daughters of Tevye,” adapted from Sholem-Aleichem by Joseph Liss; broadcast August 10, 1947. Newton, CT: RadioGoldindex. CD 71689.

“The Fiddle,” adapted from the Sholem-Aleichem story by Arnold Perl; broadcast May 4, 1947. Howell, MI: Audio Classics Archive. CD020798 #134.

“The Great Purim Scandal,” adapted from Sholem-Aleichem by Morton Wishengrad; broadcast March 17, 1946. Howell, MI: Audio Classics Archive. CD020769 #72.

“A Passover Guest,” adapted from Sholem-Aleichem by Arnold Perl; broadcast August 31, 1947. Newton, CT: RadioGoldindex. CD 75757.

“The Town of the Little People,” adapted from Sholem-Aleichem by Joseph Mindel; broadcast October 6, 1946. Howell, MI: Audio Classics Archive. CD020784 #101.

“The World of Sholom Aleichem,” adapted from Maurice Samuel by Morton Wishengred; broadcast March 4, 1945. Newton, CT: RadioGoldindex. CD 15993.

Fiddler on the Roof

Original Cast Recording. RCA Victor LOC-1093, 1964. LP.

Broadway Deluxe Collector’s Edition. RCA Victor, 2003. CD.

New Broadway Cast Recording. PS Classics, PS240, 2004. CD.

Original London Cast Recording. Columbia Masterworks SX-30742, 1971. CD.

A fidlr afn dakh.
Yiddish recording made in Israel. CBS Records 70020. LP.

Knitting on the Roof.
Knitting Factory Records. KFW-260, 1999. CD.

Perl, Arnold.
Tevya and His Daughters
, Columbia Masterworks, 1957. LP.

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The World of Sholom Aleichem.
Tikva Records, T-28, 1953. LP.

Quijano, Joe.
Fiddler on the Roof Goes Latin.
MGM Records, E/SE 4283, 1965. LP.

Schlamme, Martha.
Martha Schlamme Sings Jewish Folk Songs.
Vanguard Classics, 1957. LP

Tales from the Old Country as told by Howard Da Silva.
DECCA Album no. DU5, 1948. LP. (Thanks to Lorin Sklamberg, sound archivist at YIVO, for providing this.)

FILM, TV, VIDEO/DVD, WEB

Black Fiddler: Prejudice and the American Negro.
Howard Enders, WABC-TV NY, August 7, 1969.

Exodus.
Directed by Otto Preminger. DVD. United Artists, 1960.

Fiddler on the Roof.
Directed by Norman Jewison. DVD. Two-Disc Collector’s Edition. MGM, 1976/2001.

Footnote.
Written and directed by Joseph Cedar. United King Films and Movie Plus, 2011.

Ghetto Pillow.
Directed by Harriet Semegram, paintings by Samuel Rothbort, 1960. (Reissued as
Memories of the Shtetl
, 1989).

Jerome Robbins: Something to Dance About.
Produced and directed by Judy Kinberg, written by Amanda Vaill. American Masters. Kulture DVD, 2009.