Take a trip back in time with this iconic Yiddish-language gem. Join us at the Samantha Woll Center for Jewish Detroit (home of Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue) for a beloved Yiddish cinema classic, Tevya (1939), the powerful story that inspired Fiddler on the Roof. This film is on loan from the National Center for Jewish Film. 

 JHSM advisory board member, Hannah Mills, a freelance Yiddishkeit researcher and translator based in Oak Park, will introduce the film.

  Hannah Mills, an enthusiastic student of Yiddish language and culture since 2018, she has studied at Indiana University Bloomington, the Yiddish Book Center, and the YIVO Institute. She ran the Next Generation Speakers Program at The Zekelman Holocaust Center for three years and loves helping Jewish people connect to their place in Jewish history.

 Synopsis: Maurice Schwartz's adaptation of the classic Sholem Aleichem play centers on Khave (Tevya the Dairyman’s daughter), who falls in love with Fedye (son of a Ukrainian peasant). Her courtship and marriage pit Tevya’s love for his daughter against his deep-seated faith and loyalty to tradition. The clash between tradition and modernity, parental authority and love, and customs and enlightenment are foreshadowed by the antisemitism of the rural community.  Tevye's world is a microcosm of the larger world of Russian Jewry in the early 1900s.

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Supported by the Sholem Aleichem Institute Yiddishkeit Programming Fund.   

Co-hosted with Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue and Congregation T'chiyah 

Need assistance?  info@jhsmichigan.org or 248-915-0114, option 2