Russian constable fiddler on the roof and thus tevye the beloved milkman from fiddler on the roof learns that his shtetl of anatevka will soon have a pogrom.
Pogrom fiddler on the roof.
This story doesn t portray the full horrors and the fears that these pogroms would inflict.
Aleichem writes about the pogroms in a story called lekh lekho.
Pogroms violent riots aimed at the massacre or persecution of a particular ethnic or religious group were unfortunately well known to both feiga shamis of feiga s choice and teyve s creator sholem aleichem.
In one instance up to 250 000 jews were killed in a specific pogrom and 300 000 children were orphaned.
A pogrom is one of the central events in the play fiddler on the roof which is adapted from russian author sholem aleichem s tevye the dairyman stories.
The story of fiddler on the roof ends sadly with an uncertain future.
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