There Is No Other Hand Fiddler On The Roof

His struggle does not end there.

There is no other hand fiddler on the roof.

On the one hand on the other hand there is no other hand. You may ask why do we stay up there if it s so dangerous well we stay because anatevka is our home. With topol norma crane leonard frey molly picon. First his challenge is that his oldest daughter wants to marry a poor tailor but on the other hand he s an honest hard worker.

Fiddler on the roof is a musical with music by jerry bock lyrics by sheldon harnick and book by joseph stein set in the pale of settlement of imperial russia in or around 1905. Fiddler on the roof is the 1971 film version of the stage musical based on the stories of sholom aleichem tevye the milkman is a jewish peasant in pre revolutionary russia coping with the day to day problems of shtetl life his jewish traditions his family wife and daughters and state sanctioned programs. He only seems to reach a wall but the wall is porous as we see tevye s love for his daughter shine through. In prerevolutionary russia a jewish peasant contends with marrying off three of his daughters while growing anti semitic sentiment threatens his village.

Remember for each on the one hand there is an on the other hand because even though tevye initially says there is no other hand. You may ask why do we stay up there if it s so dangerous well we stay because anatevka is our home. Fiddler on the roof 1971 tevye cannot accept chava marrying a non jew. It is based on tevye and his daughters or tevye the dairyman and other tales by sholem aleichem the story centers on tevye the father of five daughters and his attempts to maintain his jewish religious and.

But here in our little village of anatevka you might say every one of us is a fiddler on the roof trying to scratch out a pleasant simple tune without breaking his neck. Without our traditions our lives would be as shaky as as as a fiddler on the roof the other hand scenes come as tevya watches his daughters one by one fall in love and want to marry. A fiddler on the roof.