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The Revolutionaries

Perchik is a revolutionary, very much anti-tsarist. This article covers Russian Jewish support of the Bolshevik revolution, which happened about 10 years after Fiddler on the Roof is set.

Chagall's Grey Lovers

Important Takeaways

  • Hodel and Perchik ultimately have a very sweet exchange. It's a relatively unremarkable-to-a-modern-audience moment, but for the time when they were living, they were doing something incredibly unusual: arranging their own marriage. Not only that, but they were doing so without asking Tevye before considering themselves engaged; this was one step further in commitment than Motel and Tzeitel had gone. 

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