Before there was Fiddler, there was Tevye... and the man who created him.
A riveting portrait of the great writer whose stories became the basis of the Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof. Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness tells the tale of the rebellious genius who created an entirely new literature. Plumbing the depths of a Jewish world locked in crisis and on the cusp of profound change, he captured that world with brilliant humor. Sholem Aleichem was not just a witness to the creation of a new modern Jewish identity, but one of the very men who forged it.
Joseph Dorman
Director, Writer
Rachel Dratch
Shayne Sheyndl
Hillel Halkin
Himself
Jason Kravits
Menachem Mendi
Dan Miron
Himself
Peter Riegert
Tevye
Alan Rosenberg
Narrator
David Roskies
Himself
Ruth Wisse
Herself
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