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elleng

(136,043 posts) Mon Feb 21, 2022, 08:12 PM Feb 2022

Just realized, something 'else' about 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.

“Fiddler on the Roof” is based on Tevye and his Daughters (or Tevye the Dairyman) and other tales by Sholem Aleichem .

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Just realized, something 'else' about Ukraine: (Original Post) elleng Feb 2022 OP

This message was self-deleted by its author empedocles Feb 2022 #1

TY. empedocles Feb 2022 #2

Thank for the history, I didn't know that. MLAA Feb 2022 #3

My husband's grandfather was killed in a pogrom in Ukraine MaryMagdaline Feb 2022 #4

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empedocles

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2. TY.

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Mon Feb 21, 2022, 08:22 PM

Feb 2022

My wife is a fan of such musicals. She will enjoy the anecdote.

MLAA

(18,598 posts)

3. Thank for the history, I didn't know that.

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Mon Feb 21, 2022, 09:08 PM

Feb 2022

MaryMagdaline

(7,879 posts)

4. My husband's grandfather was killed in a pogrom in Ukraine

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Mon Feb 21, 2022, 09:13 PM

Feb 2022

State sponsored terrorism. His mother was Russian-speaking
Probably would have favored the Russians over the Ukrainians. I’ve never had the warm and fuzzies for Ukraine, but they’re a fledgling democracy, learning westward. I’m hoping they are able to survive.

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