Sholem Aleichem

Jewish writer and playwright of Yiddish, who worked in Russian Empire, Switzerland, Germany and the United States (1859-1916)

American novelist, teacher (1911-2014)

Russian Jewish novelist (1851–1919)

thumb|Poster in Kraków for a stage version of Tevye. thumb| by Rywka Berger (1934) Tevye the Dairyman, also translated as Tevye the Milkman (, ), is the fictional narrator and protagonist of a series of short stories by Sholem Aleichem, and their various adaptations, the most famous being the musical Fiddler on the Roof, which premiered on Broadway in 1964, and its 1971 film adaptation. Tevye is a pious Jewish dairyman living in the Russian Empire, the patriarch of a family including several troublesome daughters. The village of Boyberik, where the stories are set (renamed Anatevka in Fiddler