Hasidic Jews Watch "Fiddler on the Roof" For the First Time
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- JewintheCity.com "Fiddler on the Roof" is a classic movie all about family, faith, and most importantly - tradition! It follows the footsteps and portrays the lives of families in the Orthodox Jewish community back in shtetl Russia. People always assume the movie is about Hasidim (even though it’s not) so we thought it would be funny to show it to actual Hasidic Jews and get their take. In this short and entertaining clip, our Hasidic viewers offer their feedback, some singing, and even some insight into their Hasidic lives. One viewer doesn’t like how the Jewish women are portrayed in the film. Another viewer likes how happy the rabbi is. Our cast includes Abe Karpen, an actor who starred alongside Natalie Portman in "New York, I Love You." L'chaim!
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Starring:
Yeshaya Karp
Abe Karpen
Avremi Toron
LA Rosenzweig
Directed and Produced by Seth Feldman and Allison Josephs
Director of Photography: Elie Gabor elie@eliecreative.com
Production Assistant Danny Moallem
Advisor: Yoily Lebowitz
Fiddler isnt supposed to be about Chasidism its about our grandparents lives as Jews in the Czar’s Ukraine
My favourite dad joke is from Fiddler. "Rabbi, there's a prayer for everything! Is there one for the Tzar?" "Yes my son, of course! May G-d bless and keep the Tzar - far away from us!"
To be fair, it takes place in another country a hundred years ago.
But I always thought fidler on the rooftop was about ethnic russian jewish culture not necessarily hasidic culture
And you're right, it's about orthodox life in a shtul not hasidic
Wanderling D you're absolutely correct. I'm a decendant of family that came from villages like Anetevka.
I respect that their first reflex on seeing the bottle dance is to try and do it too.
Re the long hair - Russian/Ukrainian Jews in the shtetl did not generally shave their heads or wear their hair particularly short - shaven heads is more a custom of central european hasidim
and also the married women had their hairs cut and covered with cloth some of sort. I've read this information while studied about jews in Russia. Btw I'm a sefardit.
When my high school did Fiddler on the roof the guys put magnets in their hats and in the bottom of the bottle to keep it on their head.
Bear in mind that it took place in Russia in a different time period as well and is a musical; not a documentary...
I could have watched them watching the movie for an hour! Why isn't this longer?! Love it!
Well I mean, no one said that Fiddler on the Roof was a documentary 😂
It was a lovely film of its time with some wonderful songs and I think it brought that country and religion to the attention of a lot of people. The 1964 musical (the film followed in 1971) according to wiki:
"Fiddler on the Roof is based on Tevye (or Tevye the Dairyman) and his Daughters, a series of stories by Sholem Aleichem that he wrote in Yiddish between 1894 and 1914 about Jewish life in a village in the Pale of Settlement of Imperial Russia at the turn of the 20th century".
It's not about Hasidim, but about daily life in the shtetl. I love this play and movie, but, as the men said, it does show a stereotype of Jewish women.
I find it is stereotypical of my mother and sisters, but then even they went outside the lines.
I was in Fiddler On The Roof last Summer as Chava and it was the most beautiful musical I have ever been in. The music, the dancing, the whole story is beautiful. It brought out an actress in me that I didn't know existed! I was so scared to do the Chavelah scene for the first time in rehearsals because I had never been that vulnerable on stage. It was an amazing experience and I was so sad to see it end. I really wish we could have filmed it so I could live the experience over and over again. However, I made some amazing new friends and memories! It was totally worth it 😊 If any of y'all ever have the chance to audition for it, totally do it! Or at least go see it if y'all ever have the chance. It's an amazing show!
I did "fiddler on the roof" in high school and played Tevye. It was a real blast!
I'm a catholic and I-JUST-LOVE my big brothers and sisters the Jews. :) I love you all!
I love your words, I love your prayers, your traditions, your songs. Beautiful :)
May the Lord be with you always!
I was baptized Catholic and my mother was a very devout Catholic. (catholic school) ect. When I was in elementary school my mother taught Spanish. When my classmates were good she would tell us stories if lessons ended early. Not even sure what brought up the movie but she started telling us some scary history. We ran out of time but the class wanted to hear more!
Time went by, one day my mother saw that the play was coming to San Diego my hometown. She arranged for a class trip. She wanted them to learn something about the Jewish people and their plight. She knew that the storyline may not be totally accurate but she wanted the class to feel and try to understand what had happened. All I can say is by the time the play ended you could have converted us right there and then! Girls crying boys running around singing (Tradition!)
P. S. Your females?!
Not screamers or overbearing BUT very strong woman!!
I was 12 when she did this for us.
Fiddler on the Roof is not about Chasidism. It’s about how regular Jews lived in shtetls all across Europe and the struggles of poverty and antisemitism they faced. What I mean by regular is what we’d today call Orthodox Judaism, before the enlightenment era of European Jewry.
I don't think the book or the musical are about Hassidim.. I mean, they take place in the pale of settlement at the dawn of the 19th century so there's no reason why Tevye and the people of Anatevka can't be hassidic, but there'd be a mention of it if they were. The Rabbi certainly didn't seem like a Hassidic Rebbe in the movie.
My father and I adored this film.Hope to watch it again as only watched once
I am not Jewish, but I remember that I really liked it when I saw it as a 12 year old in the early 1970s. If I Were A Rich Man and Sunrise, Sunset were the songs I liked the most from Musical. Sunrise, Sunset was beautiful in a sad sort of way. Fiddler On The Roof must have had an effect on me because even in my 50s I still like to watch the movie every couple of years or so. As a bookish person, I think the Russian peasant married the daughter I would have wanted to marry myself. It was interesting to see the comments of modern Hasidic Jews watching the movie for the first time. I read some of the comments here that talked of the flaws of the movie, but any flaws aside, the movie installed a positive fascination in me for Orthodox Judaism in general and Hasidic Judaism in particular. I sometimes watch scholarly lectures on Jewish history by Orthodox Jewish scholars and lectures on the Pirkei Avot by Hasidic Rabbis, and that's how I came across this video.
I am your age and was raised Catholic and I saw this movie at age 12. I own the movie and the record. I agree with u and I watch it like at LEAST once a month and sing and dance to it....my bf is very pleased with me cuz I sing super LOUD........he is like OI VEY not again lololol He is like pls pls NOT AGAIN lolol and goes on the porch even in mid-winter. My guide to how to get a man OUT of the house when he is getting on your nerves lolol
“The Papa has the last word in the House, no way.” I luv the Fiddler on the Roof movie!
I would love to see the same guys reaction to Yentl
I am Hasidic Jewish and the movie looks fun
there was a non musical version made in Yiddish in 1937 called "Tevye" that was much more accurate
+Joseph Kolakowski Where to find it? Who's been the director, or the cast?
+Nelson Faier Maurice Schwartz
+Nelson Faier was filmed on Long Island
There was a sequel in Mad Magazine had Tevye wishing he was poor again to keep away IRS. Done in classic fare.
The movie is not intended to be a documentary and keep in mind that these men are comparing the Hasidic culture of today in The United States with a theatrical production of the essence of the way things were a hundred ago in pre-Soviet Russia. That’s a very big difference even for Hasidic culture.
I remember well the lesson by our highschool teacher 1974 by teaching us of the struggles and triumphs in life daily, just by watching this at the cinema.
I've always appreciated the tender mercies and blessings since that time.
Health and happiness is everything a person should ever want.
This was funny. I fell in love with Tevye years ago! ;) Good job, guys.
I saw Chaim Topol on stage at Her Majesty's Theatre in Melbourne during his retirement world tour in 2007.
He was just as good in person as he was all those years ago in the movie!
Hard to believe he was only 30-something in the film, the aging makeup was brilliant!
Them singing with the songs killed me XD
"The Papa has the last word of the house. No Way." Sooooo Truuuuuuue.
I love Jewish culture!
My late dad's favorite movie, and he was not a fan of musicals in general. It was fun to see their reactions.
This was the best hahaha. I love this movie and I loved hearing their actual feedback since it is their religion too. Love it 😁.
Those 4 guys are amazing :-). I really love this video.
THIS IS MY FAVORITE VIDEO ON THE INTERNET!!
briannaMarie's comment is my favorite on the internet!!
I guess Fiddler is as Jewish accurate as Sister Act is Catholic accurate. :-)
First of all the Jews in Fiddler are Orthodux but not Hasidem.
Fiddler is accurate to what it was like in RUssia 110-15 years ago
mm not really
Fidler is way more accurate
Couldn't love it more. Keep 'em coming!
LOVE THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Interesting to see Hasidic Jews’ reactions, but just because a movie has Jews in it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s about being Jewish. It’s art, and art is free to be interpreted. I see this as a movie about an older generation having to come to terms with the younger generation wanting to break free and live life their own way. A father who is forced to confront the evolving needs and desires of his children. It’s as relevant today as it was in the 60’s as it was for the turn-of-the-century characters in the musical. I could watch it any day of the week. And yes, I’m a father of girls. ;)
such a good video, every now and trhen you found these
Fiddler isn’t about Chasidim, per se. It wasn’t meant to be. It’s about shtetl life, where most people were not Chasidic.
I love the Jewish people.
You need to wear the hat for the bottle dance, and it should be 3/4 full.
I love the movie ..I have seen it several times …and I also own the movie …so when I have company and they haven’t seen the movie ..I put it on ..and everyone loves it …
I love this. It is misleading to say it's about Hasidic Jews (that was in the email), except for the dancing guys at the wedding scene. But it's great to see real Hasidim comment. Personally, I dislike "Fiddler" because it distorts the original stories. Created in the early 1960s, it's more about what assimilating Jews of that era wanted to see on Broadway.... I agree with the two guys in the video -- they did make a better (more authentic) song! Thanks, +Jew in the City.
+Historian212 our video is about Hasidic Jews. at the end of the video one of the guys says Fiddler is NOT about Hasidim. most people assume the movie is.
+Jew in the City I think he (or she) is referring to the beginning, where one of the guys says they're about to watch a movie about Hasidic Jews. I heard that, and thought, "Boy, was he misinformed!" lol
+Historian212 I read the book about Tevye the Milkman. I'm glad that they didn't stick to the story. It was very sad.
+Historian212 It was a story based on a story. There still were a lot of people in New York at that time who remembered life in the actual shtetls. They weren't virulently opposed to the musical, from what I know of it. How many people would even know of Fiddler at all now if it was authentic to the actual story? And is that good or bad?
The production quality is great.
A great movie not entirely about Hasidim, but that focuses a lot on the philosophical and cultural differences between Hasidic Jews and "modern" Jews, is The Chosen. A really wonderful film.
They seem like a lot of fun.
The rabbi is awesome in fiddler.
Hasidic Jewish children are probably the cutest thing I have ever seen.
I remember in high school I remember watching the rehearsals for Fiddler on the Roof in High School and for the bottle dance they had heavy tape under the bottles. After the dance they did pull the bottles off their heads to make it more realistic as if the bottles were not actually taped or anything.
The song Tradition is half satire and half truth.
This movie is about what some if not most of our elders went through.
My grandmother could not watch this movie, we watched it as a family when I was a child and she burst into tears when it was the wedding scene, and stopped watching when the pogrom started.
For those of us who were near to that generation... who sees what an 80 year old grandmother looks like when she is taken back to her childhood that she was robbed of it becomes real. The movie is a musical and plays into now stereotypes, but at the time it was just different. My family was reflected on the screen, it is a generalization of us.
I'll always have a soft spot for it.
My grandparents called the play/ movie
Viddler oyfin dach.
Woah Alyssa this is an old video but it's the first time I see it and it's really a fun concept and excellent execution. The lubavicher guys are definitely much savvier at the reaction videos than the satmar-ish guys.
I get a smile on my face every time I watch this. Awesome!
I love fiddler on the roof
Fiddler on the Roof and Yentl, my two favorite movies with a Yiddishkite feel. Watched them both I don't know how many times. Know every song by heart. Tradition! That is what it is all about.
L'Chaim....
In my opinion, the place on earth where you live will always influence your religious traditions, foods and dances, and every way that you choose to express yourself. Maybe this is why is different from the Hassidic NY, and the fact it’s a movie
Fiddler on the Roof is NOT about Hasidim.
Did these 2 chasidishe guys really watch the whole thing, Kol Isha and all? Or did they just watch those scenes with the men singing? In any case, this was cute to watch.
+ThanxForUploading no - as we explain in the description, they only watched "scenes" from the movie.
This is so cute, sweet, and delightfu THANK YOU🤣🥰😇✡ 💙
I love this movie and I’m Jewish ...it’s amazing
My favorite part of the movie was Tevye's made up dream. Mazel tov
There is a huge amount to respect in the ways Jewish people respect themselves, their wives and families. I cannot see what biblical origin there can be in the head gear, particularly what seems to be similar to 1930 s. Gangsters. Reasons please.
Is their a proper blessing for the Zsar?
Yes, there's a blessing for everything.
May G-d bless and keep the Czar... FAR AWAY FROM US
May God bless and keep the Zsar.........FAR AWAY FROM US!
Why yes! May God bless and keep the Csar...far away from us!
May God bless and keep the Tsar...far away from US!
May the Lord bless and keep the Czar, very far from us?
Great review and reaction guys! May i know the background music you played during the watch? I really like it.
The original Tevye The Milkman b&w movie is a very somber treatment of the one daughter's apostasy by a forbidden marriage and a bleak ending as the family embarks on a lonely and bitter exile from the home village. No consolation. No reconciliation.
Fiddler On The Roof, on the other hand, is absolutely ablaze with music and optimism and humor by comparison. It's cheery and romanticizes to the point of what is called being Disney-fied.
Proud Jew here.
But fiddler on the roof is not about Hassidic people, it is about Eastern jewry
Interesting video.
I've seen Fiddler many times - most recently with Topol on stage.He portrayed Tevye in the film.
Not art imitating life, rather an adaptation of Sholom Aleichem's book, Tevye the Milkman (which I read in Hebrew, translated from its original Yiddish - don't ask! :) ) Its drama, political, historical, not entirely accurate musical...
I like the play and film, however, many parts made me uncomfortable - such as mixed dancing at the wedding, and they ask the rabbi, who says 'Its not exactly forbidden...' Guess instead of Anatevka, the village was Chelm?!
And the theme is about moving away from Yiddishkeit... The song 'Chavalah' is heartbreaking...
My bubbe was from Russia, A"H, and she told me about her first hand experiences as a child with pogroms and what shtetl life was like...
Barring having access to a primary source, if one wants to know about life in the shtetl or the many chassidm (my family, btw, are Litvish!) there are sooo many books. Also some films from between the two world wars.
The movie is not about history, it's about culture and lifestyle. It doesn't have to be accurate historically as much as accurate to the Jewish heart. My husband and I both love this movie and its Jews and we both wish we could be like Tevye.
That was just adorable
My favorite movie... Tradition!
These are not the hasids that live in Orange County NY thats for sure.
So did you skip matchmaker
What's the music in the beginning? I love it!
What a brilliant idea...mazel!
Six guys commenting on a long movie, and you only got 2:12 of content??? 😕
Best musical ever ❤
"I don't think that's a realistic picture of Hassidem."
"That movie's not about Hassidem at all."
Yeah, it's about early 19th century Ashkenazi, which has some commonalities to modern Hassidem, but it isn't the same culture or tradition. The movie literally is about that culture changing ad giving way to new things. It should be no surprise that even very traditional Jewish societies today are still markedly different from what is depicted there. That's the whole point.
lol. I still love that movie!!
These dudes can sing!
Who said Fiddler was about Khasidim? And of course It's not an accurate depiction of modern day. It's a depiction of olden day Jews living in Russia. And the main point is not about Khasidim
Just a comment. Please correct me if I am wrong. One question was "Why are the men's hair so long?" My guess is that since this takes place somewhere between 1900 and 1905 (thats what I heard anyways) there were no barber shops or what ever razors to get the job done. This is an opinion. If someone else has different information let me know. :D
Charlie Moskowitz the people in the movie were actors not ultra religious Jews, so why would they have short hair?
that's how I felt when I first learned English and saw The Sound of Music (being Middle European) ..... somewhere between ridiculous and offensive but cute ...
IF you want to know about Norwegian life the movie for you is Pipi Longstockings. That was a set they somehow played over and over in Los Angeles.
This movie was based on short stories from Russia in the late 1800's.
Love the film
I swear it's based on orthodox not hasidic jews?
I don't think I watch any movie or play as a means to see/hear the final say on any one culture. I guess one has to be a movie lover to know that it only offers one slice of life with one writer's (or writers) and one director's and one choreographer's (heck, too many to name) interpretations. These men could probably come up with a more authentic representation of their religion, but would it be watched by millions around the world? It's ART. To me, no movie actually captures the 1960's fully, but then again these movies are from a singular artist's point of view.
Personally I liked the 1939 Yiddish classic Tevye better (with English subtitles).
very well done
Can I become Jewish?
whaaat? did they watch the whole movie, that movie is pretty long, are they even sitting comfortable
Wait, this is waaaaay too short.
It's the Jewish Top Gun.
That was so funny. I do love that movie though. Lol
must be nice to have maintained your identity for thousands of years. “Tradition” no longer has definition for the rest of us.
Somehow all the personalities seem accurate in my experience
Only 2 minutes?
But they’re not Hasidic - no mention anywhere that they are.
No way these guys are watching this for the first time