Wonder of Wonders: A Cultural History of Fiddler on the Roof (76 page)

Ukraine

Ulysses in Nighttown
(Barkentin)

United Artists

United Electrical Workers Union

United Federation of Teachers (UFT)

United Scenic Union

U.S. Army

U.S. Census

U.S. Congress

U.S. Senate

U.S. State Department

U.S. Supreme Court

Unzer
(“Our”) theater

Up the Down Staircase
(film)

Uris, Leon

Vakhtangov, Evgeny

Valse, La
(Balanchine ballet)

Van Doren, Mark

Van Fleet, Jo

Vanished World
(Vishniac)

“Vanishing American Jew, The” (
Look
article)

Varhayt
(newspaper)

Variety

Vietnam War

Village I Knew, The
(Maslow dance)

village priest (character)

Vilna Troupe

Vishniac, Roman

Vitebsk (Chagall’s hometown)

Vladek, B.

Waa-Mu show
(student revue)

Waiting for Godot
(Beckett)

Walberg, Betty

Walker, Nancy

Wall, The
(Hersey)

Wallach, Eli

Wandering Stars
(Sholem-Aleichem)

Warnke, Nina

Warsaw

Warsaw Ghetto

Washington Post

Washington
Star

Waterston, Sam

Way to Buenos Aires, The
(Yiddish play)

WBAI (radio station)

Weidman, Jerome

Weinstein, Henry

Weisenfreund, Muni (
later
Paul Muni)

Weiss, Marek

Welles, Orson

“We Shall Overcome”

West Side Story
(Bernstein, Sondheim, Laurents, and Robbins)

film

“We’ve Never Missed a Sabbath Yet” (song)

We Will Never Die
(Hecht radio pageant)

“When Messiah Comes” (song)

White, Theodor H.

Wilder, Gene

Williams, John

Wish You Were Here
(Rome)

Wisse, Ruth

Wolitz, Seth

Wolper, David

Wonder, Stevie

World of Sholom Aleichem, The
(Perl dramatization)

Play of the Week
presentation of

World of Sholom Aleichem, The
(Samuel book)

World’s Fair (New York, 1964)

World War I

World War II

Wo
ź
niak, Ewa

Yehoash

Yente (character)

Yidcore band

Yiddish Art Theater

Yiddish classicism

Yiddishkayt

Yiddish language

Israel and

Mostel and

Yiddish literature

Yiddish songs

Yiddish theater

Dybbuk
and

Sholem-Aleichem and

Yidishe folks-bibliotek, Di
(
A Jewish Popular Library
) (Sholem-Aleichem)

Yidishe neshome, di (The Jewish Soul)
(Yiddish play)

Yidisher kempfer
(newspaper)

Yidishes tageblat
(newspaper)

Yinglish

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

Yizkerbikher
(memorial books)

Yom Kippur

“Yom Kippur Scandal” (Sholem-Aleichem)

Young Jewish Folksingers

Your Hit Parade
(TV show)

Your Show of Shows
(TV show)

Yugoslavia

Zangwill, Israel

Zaslavsky, Rudolf

Zborowski, Mark

Zeek, Mr.

Zeifert, Moyshe

Zion films

Zionism

Zionist Organization of America

Zipprodt, Patricia

Zukor, Adolph

Zur, Bomba

Zurawiec massacre

ALSO BY ALISA SOLOMON

Re-Dressing the Canon:

Essays on Theater and Gender

The Reverend Billy Project:

From Rehearsal Hall to Super Mall with the Church of Life After Shopping

(EDITOR, BY SAVITRI D AND BILL TALEN)

Wrestling with Zion:

Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

(COEDITOR, WITH TONY KUSHNER)

The Queerest Art:
Essays on Lesbian and Gay Theater

(COEDITOR, WITH FRAMJI MINWALLA)

A
BOUT THE
A
UTHOR

A
LISA
S
OLOMON
teaches at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, where she directs the Arts & Culture concentration in the MA program. A theater critic and general reporter for the
Village Voice
from 1983 to 2004, she has also contributed to the
New York Times
,
The Nation
,
Tablet
,
The Forward
, and other publications. Her first book,
Re-Dressing the Canon: Essays on Theater and Gender
, won the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism. She lives in New York City.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data

Solomon, Alisa, 1956–

    Wonder of wonders: a cultural history of Fiddler on the roof / Alisa Solomon.—First edition.

             pages cm

    Includes bibliographical references and index.

    ISBN 978-0-8050-9260-8

  1.  Bock, Jerry. Fiddler on the roof.   2.  Stein, Joseph. Fiddler on the roof.   3.  Sholem Aleichem, 1859–1916.   4.  Musicals—New York (State)—New York—20th century—History and criticism.   5.  Theater, Yiddish—New York (State)—New York—History—20th century.   6.  Jewish theater—New York (State)—New York—History—20th century.   I.  Title.

    ML410.B661S65 2013

    782.1'4—dc23

2013003900

First Edition 2013

eISBN 9780805095296