In the song the main character tevye explains the roles of each social class fathers mothers sons and daughters in the village of anatevka and how the traditional roles of people like the matchmaker the beggar and the rabbi contribute to the village.
Tevye fiddler on the roof tradition.
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This role is played by topol who played the character onstage in the london production of fiddler.
Fiddler on the roof is based on tevye or tevye the dairyman and his daughters a series of stories by sholem aleichem that he wrote in yiddish between 1894 and 1914 about jewish life in a village in the pale of settlement of imperial russia at the turn of the 20th century.
Tradition is the opening number for the 1964 broadway musical fiddler on the roof.
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Fiddler on the roof tells the story of tevye a jewish dairyman and his family living in anatevka a fictional town inside the pale settlement of imperial russia in 1905.