Aleichem's

Actor Zero Mostel's portrayal of Tevye, he wrote, was "one of the most glowing creations in the history of the musical theater," and Mr. Stein's adaptation of Aleichem's work "goes beyond local color and lays bare in quick, moving strokes the sorrow of people subject to the sudden tempest of vandalism and, in the end, to eviction and exile from a place that had been home."

Joseph Stein, writer of Broadway's "Fiddler on the Roof" and "Zorba," dies at 98 Emma Brown 2010

Folklore, like Sholom Aleichem's "Tevie the Milkman", centers on the difficulties of a poor Jew to marry off his daughters.

Are Husbands Really Like Potatoes?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

The music simply came to him, he said in 2002, "as I read Aleichem's stories and remembered the lullabies and little melodies my grandmother would sing to me."

Jerry Bock, Broadway composer of 'Fiddler on the Roof, dies at 81 Matt Schudel 2010

My favorite scene in the performance, and I think the funniest, is Aleichem's satire of American funerals and the correlation of wealth and weather.

Marissa Bronfman: Tantalizing Tunes: A Fall Handful of Hit Performances 2010

My favorite scene in the performance, and I think the funniest, is Aleichem's satire of American funerals and the correlation of wealth and weather.

Marissa Bronfman: Tantalizing Tunes: A Fall Handful of Hit Performances 2009

In letter after letter, these two characters exemplify Aleichem's dazzling way with the monologue form - what one contemporary professor quoted in the documentary calls "a balloon of language," carrying the characters above their plight into the realm of timelessness.

News - chicagotribune.com 2011

After his death in 1916 in New York City, Aleichem's work lived on, especially with Tevye.

SFGate: Top News Stories lhertz@sfchronicle.com (Leba Hertz 2011

Trivia buffs might find it interesting that one of the people interviewed for the movie is Aleichem's granddaughter Bel Kaufman.

SFGate: Top News Stories lhertz@sfchronicle.com (Leba Hertz 2011

This much anguished history, and Aleichem's inspired literary response to that history, has difficulties being confined to conventional documentary feature length.

News - chicagotribune.com 2011

Each scholar tapped for an opinion or an insight, on Aleichem's role in reclaiming the linguistic honor and glory of Yiddish or his prescient, increasingly bleak response to the pogroms in Russia, helps our understanding of the subject.

News - chicagotribune.com 2011