Fiddler On The Roof - Principal Characters

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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