Tevye

Tevye is a 1939 film adaptation of Sholem Aleichem's story of the same name (also known as Tevya and Tevye der Milchiker, and Tevye the Milkman). It stars Maurice Schwartz, Miriam Riselle, Rebecca Weintraub, Paula Lubelski, Leon Liebgold, Vicki Marcus, Betty Marcus and Julius Adler. The movie was adapted by Marcy Klauber and Schwartz from the Sholem Aleichem play based on his own book. Schwartz also directed the film. The production is in Yiddish... more

Tevye is a 1939 film adaptation of Sholem Aleichem's story of the same name (also known as Tevya and Tevye der Milchiker, and Tevye the Milkman). It stars Maurice Schwartz, Miriam Riselle, Rebecca Weintraub, Paula Lubelski, Leon Liebgold, Vicki Marcus, Betty Marcus and Julius Adler. The movie was adapted by Marcy Klauber and Schwartz from the Sholem Aleichem play based on his own book. Schwartz also directed the film. The production is in Yiddish. The film was the first Non-English language film to have been deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. less