Appearances in Other Media
- In 1983, Matthew Smith used it as the background music in the seminal ZX Spectrum game Jet Set Willy.
- In a season 4 episode of the 1980s sitcom Perfect Strangers, Balki Bartokomous, in his hopes of winning, sang part of the song after buying a lottery ticket.
- An easter egg on the DVD of the 2004 film Spider-Man 2 features Doctor Octopus (Alfred Molina) singing the song. Molina had played the role of Tevye on Broadway.
- The song was heard in the King of Queens episode "Hi-Def Jam".
- Part of the song is also heard being hummed by some guards in the first game of the series Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell.
- John Safran sings the song to various Palestinians including leaders of Hamas and the Palestinian Liberation Organization on the third episode of his show John Safran's Race Relations.
- In a season 3 episode of Til Death, a Jewish man sings the song to Brad Garrett's character Eddie Stark.
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