Actress and teacher Joanna Merlin, original Tzeitel in Broadway’s ‘Fiddler,’ dies at 92 A grueling audition process earned her the role of the daughter who married Motel the tailor.
Sheldon Harnick, the lyricist who made Jewish longing universal in ‘Fiddler on the Roof,’ dies at 99 Sheldon Harnick’s paeans to Jewish tradition have become a songbook for the universal anguish of cultural loss.
Chaim Topol, Israeli actor who played Tevye in 1971 ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ film, dies at 87 Topol won the 1964 Golden Globe for best new actor for his performance in the Israeli film “Sallah Shabati.”