BOSTON - There are many performers who go by just one name. Cher, Prince and Sting are the best known. But you'll want to add one more legend to that list: Topol. And if you don't know who he is, best ...

Ms. Wildman is a staff editor and writer in Opinion. A few years ago, I bought my father a T-shirt printed with the Yiddish words “Shver tsu zayn a yid” (“It’s hard to be a Jew”). The expression is ...

Chaim Topol — an actor perhaps better known for the role he played, “Tevye” the milkman, in Fiddler on the Roof, died Thursday in Israel, age 87. As The New York Times’ obituary noted, some actors ...

Fiddler on the Roof is a landmark piece of Jewish culture. It has shaped the way Jews are perceived by others, and how we understand ourselves, since it premiered on Broadway in 1964, starring Zero ...

THIS CINEMATIC ADAPTATION of the Broadway hit show which, itself, was an adaptation of a collection of Sholem Aleichem folktales called “Tevye’s Daughters.” It’s the story of Tevye (Topol), a poor ...

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I never met Chaim Topol, the acclaimed Israeli actor who died Wednesday at the age of 87, but I did spend considerable time talking with him by phone. When I was researching my 2014 book about Fiddler ...

“Sadly, the fiddler on the roof is no longer with us,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday (Mar. 9) in reaction to the news that beloved Israeli actor Chaim Topol had passed ...

Chaim Topol, a leading Israeli actor who charmed generations of theatergoers and movie-watchers with his portrayal of Tevye, the long-suffering and charismatic milkman in "Fiddler on the Roof," has ...

JERUSALEM — Chaim Topol, a leading Israeli actor who charmed generations of theatergoers and movie-watchers with his portrayal of Tevye, the long-suffering and charismatic milkman in “Fiddler on the ...

Chaim Topol, the Academy Award-nominated actor who notably portrayed Tevye in the 1971 film “Fiddler on the Roof,” died at 87 years old. Israeli President Isaac Herzog announced Topol’s death ...