Tevye.
character in short stories by Sholem Aleichem and the musical Fiddler on the Roof
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About Tevye
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, is based on the town of Boyarka, Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire. Boyberik is a suburb of Yehupetz, where most of Tevye's customers live.
Everything about Tevye →- Occupation
- milk deliverer
- Citizenship
- Russian Empire
- Inception
- 1894