Leonard Nimoy Fiddler On The Roof

Fiddler on the roof was based on a series of stories written by the jewish mark twain like samuel clemens sholem rabinovich was better known by his pen name.

Leonard nimoy fiddler on the roof.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with leonard nimoy. Leonard simon nimoy was born in boston massachusetts to dora spinner and max nimoy who owned a barbershop. Leonard nimoy jewish actor most well known for his role as spock on the star trek science fiction series recalls the wonderful experience of playing tevye in fiddler on the roof in his hometown of boston. This excerpt is in english.

If i were a rich man. On his role as mendel the rabbi s son in the original broadway production of fiddler on the roof it was originally a very small part no more than a cough and a mazel tof but it got bigger. Who hasn t played tevye in fiddler on the roof. Joseph stein dir ben shaktman tevye.

In hebrew sholem aleichem an alias. Tresa hughes his daughters. Based on the novel tevye and his daughters by sholom aleichemmusic. Travis hudson motel tailor.

His parents were ukrainian jewish immigrants. Fiddler on the roof is based on tevye or tevye the dairyman and his daughters a series of stories by sholem aleichem that he wrote in yiddish between 1894 and 1914 about jewish life in a village in the pale of settlement of imperial russia at the turn of the 20th century. Toni caiola yente matchmaker.