Imagining Europe: The Popular Arts of American Jewish Ethnography
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
2001
“Practically everyone has seen the prize-winning musical about the lovable people in that little village in Old Russia called Anetevka [sic]. Well, as far as we’re concerned, ‘
Fiddler
’ made a goof!” Mad magazine’s irreverent parody of the Broadway show (1964) and film (1971) “takes this famous musical about the problems of people who had nothing…
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