Principal Characters
- Tevye, a poor milkman
- Golde, Tevye's wife
- Tzeitel, their oldest daughter, about nineteen. Loves Motel.
- Hodel, their daughter, about seventeen. Falls in love with Perchik.
- Chava, their daughter, about fifteen. Falls in love with Fyedka.
- Shprintze their daughter about 12
- Bielke, their youngest daughter about nine
- Motel Kamzoil, the tailor, who loves, and later marries, Tzeitel
- Perchik, a student and Bolshevik revolutionary, who falls in love with Hodel
- Fyedka, a young Christian man who marries Chava
- Lazar Wolf, the butcher that Tzeitel was supposed to marry
- Yente, the gossipy village matchmaker who matches Tzeitel and Lazar
- Fruma-Sarah, Lazar Wolf's dead wife, who rises from the grave in Tevye's nightmare
- Grandma Tzeitel, Golde's dead grandmother
- Mordcha, the innkeeper
- Rabbi, the village rabbi
- Constable, the head of the Russian authority in Anatevka
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