05/28/2026
/ here bringing you another : DAKH | דאַך | ROOF. As in, "Fidler afn dakh”! Perhaps better known as "Fiddler on the Roof," the beloved musical about love, family, and Jewish life that premiered on Broadway in 1964 and was adapted as a film in 1971. Since the premiere in 1964, there hasn’t been a single day that Fiddler hasn’t been in production somewhere in the world: at a school, a university, a community theatre, on the professional stage. Who doesn’t know “Tradition, Tradition!” or “Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a match”?
The musical is based on the well-known stories of the Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem. And in the 1960s, a brilliant actor and writer named Shraga Friedman translated the musical into Yiddish. "Fidler afn dakh” premiered in New York in 2018 and is fast becoming a global sensation—with a two-week run in Toronto on NOW through June 7!
Don’t miss the Drama Desk award-winning Yiddish Fiddler (with English subtitles) at the Elgin Theatre, May 25-June 7! Brought to Toronto by the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (the longest-running Yiddish theatre company in the world) and an exceptional all-Canadian cast. Laugh, cry, and bring your mother! Tickets through Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company
Toronto has long been a city where the spirit of "Fiddler on the Roof" lives on. Pictured here, two community productions from 1980 and 1986. TRADITION!
🎭Ruth Gorbet playing Yenta in Fiddler, Little Theatre Production, 1980. OJA, accession 2007-6-35.
🎭Director Sharyn Stein Hurwitz shows Associated Hebrew School grade nine students how to impress the matchmaker at "Fiddler" rehearsal, Toronto, 1986. Ontario Jewish Archives, item 4205. Identified in photograph: Sharyn Stein Hurwitz, far left, and Tevye's daughters, from left Natalie Riback; Joanna Levitt; Leora Erez.
