Ms. Wildman is a staff editor and writer in Opinion. A few years ago, I bought my father a T-shirt printed with the Yiddish words “Shver tsu zayn a yid” (“It’s hard to be a Jew”). The expression is ...

Chaim Topol — an actor perhaps better known for the role he played, “Tevye” the milkman, in Fiddler on the Roof, died Thursday in Israel, age 87. As The New York Times’ obituary noted, some actors ...

Fiddler on the Roof is a landmark piece of Jewish culture. It has shaped the way Jews are perceived by others, and how we understand ourselves, since it premiered on Broadway in 1964, starring Zero ...

BOSTON - There are many performers who go by just one name. Cher, Prince and Sting are the best known. But you'll want to add one more legend to that list: Topol. And if you don't know who he is, best ...

Chaim Topol, the Academy Award-nominated actor who notably portrayed Tevye in the 1971 film “Fiddler on the Roof,” died at 87 years old. Israeli President Isaac Herzog announced Topol’s death ...

Topol, a leading Israeli actor who charmed generations of theatergoers and movie-watchers with his portrayal of Tevye, the long-suffering and charismatic dairyman in “Fiddler on the Roof,” has died in ...

Chaim Topol’s name is no more separable from his Fiddler on the Roof character, Tevye, than Adam is from Eve. Over the past four decades, Topol has re-created the old mensch on the stage countless ...

Sholem Aleichem’s Tevye stories revolutionized Yiddish literature in the late-19th century. Tevye the Dairyman, as the collection of these innovative stories would be titled, helped pave the way for ...

March 9 (UPI) --Chaim Topol died Wednesday at the age of 87. Israeli President Isaac Herzog announced Topol's death on Twitter and CNN confirmed with Topol's representatives. Going only by the name ...