Tevya (1939)

19391h 33mdir. Maurice SchwartzYiddishUnited Statesdrama film

With Maurice Schwartz

Directed by Maurice Schwartz

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Tevya is a 1939 American Yiddish film, based on author Sholem Aleichem's stock character Tevye the Dairyman, also the subject of the 1964 musical Fiddler on the Roof. It was the first non-English language picture selected for preservation by the National Film Registry.

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