Tevye (film)
Tevya is a 1939 American Yiddish film, based on author Sholem Aleichems stock character Tevye the Dairyman. It was the first nonEnglish picture selected for preservation by the National Film Registry.
The production was filmed at Biograph Studios in New York City and on a farm in Jericho, Long Island, New York. Midway through the shooting of the film, on August 23, 1939, Hilter seized Danzig and a Nazi invasion of Poland was imminent. These and other events in Europe impacted on the actors, many of whom had family in Poland. The filming was completed nevertheless.The story focuses primarily on the plotlines from Sholem Aleichems stories Chava and LekhLekho Get Thee Out but provides a definite ending rather than Sholom Aleichems ambiguous ending. In this version of Tevya, as the Jews are expelled from their shtetl, Chava who had previously converted to Christianity to marry, leaves her husband, returns to her family and to Judaism. It is felt that the antiSemitism of the time influenced Schwartz to provide this ending. ........
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