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‘Without our traditions,’ Topol’s character Tevye reminds us, ‘our lives would be as shaky as … a fiddler on the roof!’
Chaim Topol — an actor perhaps better known for the role he played, “Tevye” the milkman, in Fiddler on the Roof, died Thursday in Israel, age 87. As The New York Times’ obituary noted, some actors come to be identified with their roles: Yul Brynner as the King of Siam, Rex Harrison as Professor Henry Higgins, maybe even Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard. The same can be said of Tevye … I mean Topol.
Fiddler on the Roof contains a number of religious elements. Some of them are religion refracted through an American lens, e.g., the rabbi whose primary job is telling jokes. Some stem from the nature of Judaism itself, where religion happens as much in the family hearth as the synagogue.
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Chaim Topol — an actor perhaps better known for the role he played, “Tevye” the milkman, in Fiddler on the Roof, died Thursday in Israel, age 87. As The New York Times’ obituary noted, some actors come to be identified with their roles: Yul Brynner as the King of Siam, Rex Harrison as Professor Henry Higgins, maybe even Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard. The same can be said of Tevye … I mean Topol.
Fiddler on the Roof contains a number of religious elements. Some of them are religion refracted through an American lens, e.g., the rabbi whose primary job is telling jokes. Some stem from the nature of Judaism itself, where religion happens as much in the family hearth as the synagogue.
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Topol, Star of ‘Fiddler on the Roof,’ Dies at 87
‘Without our traditions,’ Topol’s character Tevye reminds us, ‘our lives would be as shaky as … a fiddler on the roof!’
