Head inside rehearsal as the Off-Broadway cast of Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish perform, "Traditsye" ("Tradition"). Filmed & edited by Shoshana / @bwaySHO
Fabelhaft! I just saw Fiddler last week, in the round no less, at Hale Center Theater in Sandy, UT. It was a marvelous production. This looks like it was a great time too!
1960's-1970's: No one wants to speak Yiddish anymore, Fiddler becomes a smash hit in Hebrew. 2020: Golde and family sing Sabbath Prayer in (probably) their mother tongue, Yiddish - on Zoom.
I have just come across this..and it is an absolute joy to listen to! ... I speak German ..and having listened to my mother speaking her 'Low German' , and also having experience of living on the Dutch border for a coupe of years (I spoke German, they spoke Dutch and we understood one another!)...I was thrilled by how much of this beautiful rendition I was able to understand. Of course, now I want to watch the whole production!!!
Goshhhh I only just learned about this production of Fiddler, would've loved to have gotten to see it in Yiddish (wish I could fully understand it though, only bits and pieces)! Really hoping it got a proshot filmed, would love to see it someday!
Of course it does. Yiddish is closely related. Think of it as a version of German with a bunch of Hebrew words mixed in along with a slightly Slavic element. This is/was the lingua franca of Eastern European Jewish civilization right up to the Holocaust.
