The 1939 Yiddish-language film "Tevye," shot on a Long Island potato farm, was adapted from Sholom Aleichem's short-story collection "Tevye the Dairyman," first published in 1894. Aleichem's stories ...

the Cossacks at the tavern and the bottle dance at the wedding of Tevye’s first-born Tzeitl were hugely memorable. Fein opts for realism so that all the dancing here takes on a drunken ...