(M) Fiddler On The Roof
Grade: A
This is a great film. I simply love love love Judaism. This is a three hour musical about the Jewish community struggling with a changing world. The progress of the world in summarized through a single family. A man has 5 daughters and three of them get married in the film. While the older generation struggles with tradition, the younger generation brings change into the small Jewish community. The first daughter wants to marry somebody she loves rather than having a marriage arranged. The second daughter chooses to marry a man whether her father approves or not. The third daughter chooses to marry a non-Jewish man. All of this occurs in Russia and while all the family drama is going there is a background story that deals with the hatred that the Jewish people suffer.

From around 165 CE to 1945 (or 1947) CE the Jews were always held in small poor towns, exiled from their homeland, and treated as less than human, mainly by Christian nations who viewed them as God killers, blaming them for the murder of Jesus. The ways and life of the old traditional Jewish people is one of the most beautiful cultures of customs I have seen.