Wonder of Wonders : A Cultural History of Fiddler on the Roof (Hardcover)

from TheFlamingoReads

The story of Tevye, the milkman from Anatevka, is known all over the world, but not many know that he first became well known decades before "Fiddler on the Roof" hit the Broadway stage or the big screen. In "Wonder of Wonders: A Cultural History of Fiddler on the Roof" by Alisa Solomon, we learn...

from Tsoys

Wearing wire-rimmed glasses and a trademark mustache, tunic-clad Sholem Naumovich Rabinovich (known as Sholem Aleichem) sits in mid-composition at his desk. With that romantic photograph, Alisa Solomon (theater critic for The Village Voice and winner of the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic C...

from bostonian71

Engaging and intelligent look at the Jewish musical to end all Jewish musicals. Solomon not only provides invaluable background on the Sholem Aleichem stories that inspired "Fiddler" and the creation of the play, but discusses the various cultural resonances that the original Broadway show and su...

from chuck_ralston

Alisa Solomon's richly detailed Wonder of Wonders ; A Cultural History of Fiddler on the Roof (New York : Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 2013), tells the tale of how the now iconic Broadway musical grew from stories by Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem (born Sholom Rabinowitz in Pereyeslav, Russian ...

from waltzmn

I first heard the Broadway recording of "Fiddler on the Roof" as a child of about ten, hiding away from the playground bullies of elementary school. I saw the movie a few years later, bought the cast recording while LPs were still popular, eventually bought the DVD. There is tradition for you, if...