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Chaim Topol as Tevye, and Norma Crane as his wife, Golde.

In case you’re having one of those lazy Sundays with no plans at all — it beats a lot of other things you could be watching.

Also, if you haven’t seen it but were ashamed to admit it — here’s your chance to catch up.

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And, of course, it’s also a dynamite movie.

Music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, book by Joseph Stein, set in 1905, Czarist Russia, based on Tevye and his Daughters (or Tevye the Milkman and Other Tales) by Sholem Aleichem.

The story revolves around Tevye, the father of five daughters, and his attempts to maintain his family and religious traditions while outside influences encroach on their lives. He is coping with his three, strong-willed daughters, who each pick a husband that’s further away from the faith, and with the Czarist repression.

The original Broadway production opened in 1964, and had more than 3,000 performances. It has since had four Broadway revivals, and this very successful 1971 film adaptation.

Chaim Topol plays Tevye, Norma Crane plays his wife Golde.


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Yori Yanover has been a working journalist since age 17, before he enlisted and worked for Ba'Machane Nachal. Since then he has worked for Israel Shelanu, the US supplement of Yedioth, JCN18.com, USAJewish.com, Lubavitch News Service, Arutz 7 (as DJ on the high seas), and the Grand Street News. He has published Dancing and Crying, a colorful and intimate portrait of the last two years in the life of the late Lubavitch Rebbe, (in Hebrew), and two fun books in English: The Cabalist's Daughter: A Novel of Practical Messianic Redemption, and How Would God REALLY Vote.