<P> Fiddler on the Roof is based on Tevye and his Daughters ( or Tevye the Dairyman ) , a series of stories by Sholem Aleichem that he wrote in Yiddish between 1894 and 1914 about Jewish life in a village in the Pale of Settlement of Imperial Russia at the turn of the 20th century . It is also influenced by Life Is with People , by Mark Zborowski and Elizabeth Herzog . Aleichem wrote a dramatic adaptation of the stories that he left unfinished at his death , but which was produced in Yiddish in 1919 by the Yiddish Art Theater and made into a film in the 1930s . In the late 1950s , a musical based on the stories , called Tevye and his Daughters , was produced Off - Broadway by Arnold Perl . Rodgers and Hammerstein and then Mike Todd briefly considered bringing this musical to Broadway but dropped the idea . </P>
<P> Fiddler on the Roof is based on Tevye and his Daughters ( or Tevye the Dairyman ) , a series of stories by Sholem Aleichem that he wrote in Yiddish between 1894 and 1914 about Jewish life in a village in the Pale of Settlement of Imperial Russia at the turn of the 20th century . It is also influenced by Life Is with People , by Mark Zborowski and Elizabeth Herzog . Aleichem wrote a dramatic adaptation of the stories that he left unfinished at his death , but which was produced in Yiddish in 1919 by the Yiddish Art Theater and made into a film in the 1930s . In the late 1950s , a musical based on the stories , called Tevye and his Daughters , was produced Off - Broadway by Arnold Perl . Rodgers and Hammerstein and then Mike Todd briefly considered bringing this musical to Broadway but dropped the idea . </P>
what is the setting of fiddler on the roof
what is the setting of fiddler on the roof
a village in the Pale of Settlement of Imperial Russia at the turn of the 20th century
a village in the Pale of Settlement of Imperial Russia at the turn of the 20th century