Bock’s music cleverly accompanies a story by American playwright Joseph Stein of a Jewish milkman named Tevye, his wife, Golde, and their five daughters in the small town of Anatevka in the Pale of Settlement of Imperial Russia around 1905.

Source: https://triblive.com/local/valley-news-dispatch/plum-high-school-students-prepare-for-fiddler-on-the-roof/

Topol faced tough competition securing the role in Jewison's hit film - scores of talents have played Tevye in over a dozen languages since "Fiddler on the Roof" first appeared.

Source: https://abc11.com/topol-fiddler-on-the-roof-celebrity-deaths-tevye/12933295/