Stories of Tevye: Tevye the Dairyman (1939) and Fiddler on the Roof (1971) Tevye, the protagonist of the films Tevye the Dairyman and Fiddler on the Roof, originated from a series of short stories about Tevye written by Sholem Aleichem. Although the two films are both based on the same story, they are different in many aspects, especially in the endings and how certain characters are emphasized. For example, while all the daughters and their marriages are emphasized in Fiddler on the Roof, only
YENTL,” the play now in production at the Cleveland Play House, is based on Isaac Bashevis Singer’s short story, “YENTL, THE YESHIVA BOY.” The play had a short Broadway run in 1975, but the story is best known to the general public because of the film version, which was written, produced and directed by and starred Barbara Streisand. The tale centers on Yentl, a girl whose father, a learned Orthodox Rabbi, defies religious custom and teaches his daughter to read and debate Jewish law and theology
“What's the best holiday? Hanukkah, of course. You don't go to heder for eight days in a row; you eat pancakes every day, spin your dreidel to your heart's content and from all sides’ money comes pouring in. What holiday can be better?”- Sholem Aleichem (Drucker, 36). Festival of Lights and Hanukah is another name for Hanukkah. Hanukkah lasts for eight days. Each day a candle is lit. A candle is light on the first night. Then on the second night another candle is light. Then so on till all the