Tevye lived in czarist russia which included much of what is now.
Is fiddler on the roof set in ukraine.
In 1905 tevye a poor jewish milkman living in the ukrainian village of anatevka a typical shtetl in the pale of settlement of imperial russia compares the lives of the jews of anatevka to a fiddler on the roof who appears throughout the film in this metaphorical role using tradition to scratch out a pleasant simple tune without breaking their necks.
For the film see fiddler on the roof film.
The stories were written in yiddish and first published in 1894.
The map shows how kiev was inside the pale and in fact ukraine only gained its independence from russia in 1917 and then later in 1991 from the soviet union.
An entrance to anatevka jewish refugee community.
The village of boyberik where the stories are set renamed anatevka in fiddler on the roof is based on the town of boyarka ukraine then part of the russian empire.
They have been published as tevye and his daughters tevye s daughters tevye the milkman and tevye the dairyman.
The events related in the fiddler on the roof take place in anatevka a fictional town inside the pale during the year of 1905.
Anatevka is also the fictional hometown of tevye the dairyman from joseph stein s hugely famous fiddler on the roof musical.