Production Background
The film 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 was filmed at Biograph Studios in New York City and on a farm in Jericho, Long Island, New York, and is in Yiddish. Long thought to be a lost film, a print was discovered in 1978. The same story was to be the basis of the later stage musical and film Fiddler on the Roof.
In 1991, Tevye was the first non-English language film to be named "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the U.S. Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.
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