Wonder of Wonders: A Cultural History of Fiddler on the Roof (73 page)

American Labor Party

Anatevka (fictional shtetl)

eviction from

film version

recreated in Poland

“Anatevka” (song)

Andy Williams Show, The
(TV show)

Another Country
(Baldwin)

Anouilh, Jean

Ansky, S.

anti-Communism

Anti-Defamation League (ADL)

Anti-Semitic Cartoons Contest

antisemitism

“Antisemitism” (poem)

“Any Day Now” (song)

Appell, Don

Applebaum, Martin

Apple Tree
(Bock and Harnick)

Arden, John

Arenshteyn, Mark

Arlen, Harold

Aronson, Boris

Aronson, Lisa Jalowetz

Aronson, Marc

ARTEF (Arbeter Teatr Farband)

Arthur, Bea

Art Institute of Chicago

Asch, Sholem

“As Much as That” (song)

Atkinson, Brooks

Attle, John C.

Auschwitz

Australia

Austro-Hungarian Empire

Ausubel, Nathan

AWARE

“Baby Birds” (song)

Bagels and Yox
(revue)

Bailey, Pearl

Baird, Bil

Baird, Cora

Balanchine, George

Baldwin, James

Ballade
(Robbins ballet)

Ballets: USA

Ballet Theater

Barnes, Clive

Bass, Alfie

Bauer, Jamie

Bayes, Sammy

Beck, Glenn

Beckett, Samuel

Beilis, Menachem Mendel

Belafonte, Harry

Ben-Ami, Jacob

Benchley, Robert

Ben Hur
(film)

Benjamin, Richard

Berdeen, Robert

Berdichevsky, Micah

Berg, Gertrude

Berger, Anna Vita

Berger, Juliusz

Berkowitz, Joel

Berkowitz, Y. D. (Sholem-Aleichem’s son-in-law)

Berman, Shelley

Bernardi, Herschel

Bernstein, Aline

Bernstein, Leonard

Beyond the Melting Pot
(Glazer and Moynihan)

Bezmozgis, David

Bialik, Haim Nachman

Bialystok Puppet Division

Bianco, Lorenzo

Bikel, Theodore

Birnel, Bruce

Black Fiddler
(TV documentary)

blacklist

Black Panthers

Blacks, The
(Genet)

Blaming the Victim
(Ryan)

Blitzstein, Marc

blood libel

Bloody Hoax, The
(
Der blutiger shpas
) (Sholem-Aleichem)

Blues for Mister Charlie
(Baldwin)

Blum, Barry

Bluzhever, Rebbe

Bock, Jerry

Bodin, Duane

Body Beautiful, The
(Bock, Harnick, and Stein)

“Bontche the Silent (Bontche Schweig),” (Sholem-Aleichem / Perl)

Borschtcapades
(revue)

Bosley, Tom

“Boston Beguine” (song)

“Bottle Dance” (dance)

Boyle, Robert

Brand, Phoebe

Brantley, Ben

Brecht, Bertolt

Brenner, Yosef Haim

Broadway Central Hotel Caterers

Broken Alliance
(Kaufman)

Bronx Express
(Dymov)

Brooks, Mel

Brothers Ashkenazi, The
(
Di brider ashkenazi
) (Singer / Schwartz)

Brown, Frances

Brownsville Community Council

Brownsville school protests

Brown v. Board of Education

Brustein, Robert

“Bubble Bursts, The” (Sholem-Aleichem / Butwin)

Buloff, Joseph

Burning Lights
(Chagall)

Burton, Richard

Buttons, Red

Butwin, Frances

Butwin, Joseph

Butwin, Julius

Cabaret
(Kander, Ebb, and Masteroff)

Cabot, Tony

Caesar, Sid

Cafe Crown
(Kraft and Hague)

Cahan, Abe

Calloway, Cab

Camelot
(Lerner and Loewe)

Cameri Theater (Tel Aviv)

Campbell, Leslie (
later
Jitu Weusi)

Canarsie High School

Canby, Vincent

Cannon, Beverly

Capa, Cornell

Caplan, Micah

Carnovsky, Morris

Carousel
(Rodgers and Hammerstein)

Carr, Jay

Carter, Lillian

Carter, Olga

Cassidy, Jack

Catholic Church

Catholic Film Newsletter

Cedar, Joseph

Chabad telethon

Chagall, Bella

Chagall, Marc

Chaikin, Joseph

Chaney, James

Chava or Khave (character)

Chavez, Hugo

Chekhov, Anton

Chelm folk stories

Cherry Orchard, The
(Chekhov)

Chicago Daily Tribune

Chile

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
(film)

Chronicler
(weekly)

Cincinnati Kid, The
(film)

Civil Rights Congress

civil rights movement

Clurman, Harold

Coca, Imogene

Coe, Fred

Cohen, Israel

Cohn, Roy

Colbert, Stephen

Cold War

Comedy of Errors
(Shakespeare)

Commentary

Committee for the Negro in the Arts

Communism

Company
(Soundheim)

Concert, The
(Robbins ballet)

Confessions of Nat Turner, The
(Styron)

Conforti, Gino

constructivism

Convy, Bert

Cooke, Terence Cardinal

Cooper, Saul

Cosmopolitans, The
(Kalman)

Counterattack

counterculture

Coward, Noel

Crown Publishers

Crucible, The
(Miller)

Cunningham, Sarah

Curtis, Tony

Czechoslovakia

Daley, Richard

Damon, Stuart

“Dances of the Jewish People” (Lapson)

Darnton, Robert

Da Silva, Howard

Datner, Nathan

Daughters of Tevye, The
(radio play)

David ben David
(Sholem-Aleichem)

Davis, Moshe

Davis, Ossie

Davis, Sammy, Jr.

Dawidowicz, Lucy

Day, Doris

Dayan, Asaf

Dayan, Moshe

“Dear, Sweet Sewing Machine” (song)

Debuskey, Merle

Debussy, Claude

De Cormier, Robert

Decter, Midge

Dee, Ruby

De Mille, Agnes

DeMille, Cecil B.

Denmark

De-Novo troupe

Deputy, The
(Hochhuth)

Detroit News

Diary of Anne Frank, The
(Goodrich and Hackett)

Dignity Memorial

Dolan, Bobby

Donlevy, Brian

Do Re Mi
(Styne, Comden, and Green)

Doyle, Clyde

“Do You Love Me?” (song)

“Dreyfus in Kasrilevka” (Sholem-Aleichem / Butwin)

Drucker, Mort

Durning, Charles

Dust Bowl Ballads
(Maslow dance)

Dybbuk, The
(Ansky play)

Dybbuk, The
(Robbins and Bernstein ballet)

Dymov, Osip

Dynów, Poland

Earth Is the Lord’s, The
(Heschel)

Eastern Europe

East Side, West Side
(TV show)

Ed Sullivan Show
(TV show)

Educational Alliance

Efros, Avrom

Egypt

Eichmann, Adolf

Eiseman Junior High School

Elder, Lonne

Elman, Irving

Empty Noose, The
(radio documentary)

“Enchanted Tailor, The” (Sholem-Aleichem)

Enders, Howard

Enter Laughing
(Stein)

Entin, Joel

Eshkol, Levi

Eternal Light, The
(radio show)

Euripides

Everett, Tanya

Everyman’s Talmud

Exodus
(Uris)

Exter, Alexandra

Family Affair, A
(Goldman, Goldman, and Kander)

Fancy Free
(Robbins and Bernstein ballet)

“Far from the Home I Love” (song)

Faulk, John Henry

Faust
(
Got, mentsh, un tayvl
) (Gordin)

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

Federal Communications Commission

Federal Drug Administration

Federal Theater Project

Feller, Fred

Felsenstein, Walter

Feminine Mystique
(Friedan)

Ferlak, Maciej

“Fiddle, The” (Sholem-Aleichem / Da Silva and Perl)

fiddler image

Fiddler on the Roof
(Bock, Harnick, and Stein). See also
Tevye der milkhiker
; and specific individuals and works

act 1 finale

act 2 problems

awards and honors

bar mitzvahs and

Bock and Harnick begin score

box office

Brownsville school production of

casting and

Chagall and

costume design and

criticisms of

cultural resonance of

dance and

designers and

dialectics of

ending adjusted out of town

fan letters and

folk circle and

foreign productions of (
see also
specific locations)

Hasidism and

High Holidays observance and

idea first developed

intermarriage anxieties and

investors and cost of

Israeli productions of

Israeli responses to

Jewish identity and

JFK and

lighting designer

London production of

national tours of

opening night

original cast album

origins of (
see
Sholem-Aleichem;
and specific adaptations, characters, stories, and translations
)

out-of-town try-outs, Detroit

out-of-town try-outs, Washington

plot details created in last Tevye story

Polish productions of

popularity of

Prince agrees to produce

profits and

radical culture and

rehearsals and staging of

research consultant on

reviews and

revivals of

rights and licensing of

Robbins hired to direct

score covered

score written (
see also
specific songs)

set design

Sholem-Aleichem and (
see
specific adaptations, stories, novels, plays, and translations)

Stein drafts book for

success of

title found

Tony Awards and

touring productions

tradition as theme of

Fiddler on the Roof
(film)

Academy Awards and

box office

casting

Christmas sing-alongs

collectibles and

Holocaust and

Howard University benefit screening of

Jewish masculinity and

Jewison directs

Mad Magazine
satire of

marketing and publicity and

Poland and

reviews

rights acquired

stage production vs.

synagogue constructed for

Yugoslavia location and sets

“
Fiddler on the Roof” goes Latin
(album)

“Fiddler Who Went on the Roof, The” (Almagor)

Fiddlin’ on Ya Roof
(album)

Fielding, Anne

Fierstein, Harvey

Fierstein, Irving

Fierstein, Jacqueline

Figueroa, Maritza

Finian’s Rainbow
(Harburg, Saidy, and Lane)

Finland

Fiorello!
(Bock, Harnick, and Weidman)

Fishbein, J. I.

Fishberg, Morris

Fishman, Tzvi

Flag Is Born, A
(Hecht pageant)

flashen-tantz

Flood, The
(
Der mabl
) (Sholem-Aleichem)

Fokin, Michel

“Folk dances for the Jewish Festival” (Lapson)

Folksay
(Maslow dance)

Footnote
(film)

Forbidden Broadway
(revue)

Ford Foundation

Forverts
(newspaper)

France

Fra
ń
czak, Zygmunt

Franklin, Aretha

Fraye arbeter shtime
(newspaper)

Free World, The
(Bezmozgis)

French Connection, The
(film)

Frey, Leonard

Friedan, Betty

Friedkin, William

Funny Girl
(Styne, Merrill, and Lennart)

Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, A
(Sondheim, Shevelove, and Gelbart)

Fyedka (character)

Galicia

Gans, Herbert

gay liberation movement

Genesis

Genet, Jean

Germany

Gersten, Bertha

“Get Thee Out (Lekh Lekho)” (Sholem-Aleichem, eighth Tevye story)

“Get Thee Out” (song)

Ghetto Pillow
(film)

Gibson, Mel

Gielgud, John

Gilbert and Sullivan

Gilford, Jack

Gilman, Richard

Glickman, Will

Godik, Giora

Goebbels, Joseph

Gogol, Nikolai

Golan, Menachem

Goldberg, B. Z.

Goldbergs, The
(radio and TV show)

Golde (character)

“Golden Peacock, The” (folk song)

Goldfadn, Avrum

Goldman, James

Goldman, William

Goldsmith, Emanuel S.

Gomulka, Wladyslaw

Goodbye, Columbus
(Roth)

Goodman, Andrew

Gordin, Yankev

Goren, Arthur A.

Goren, B.

Gorin, Girgory

Gorky, Maxim

Gormé, Eydie