“My ancestors are Russian shtetl Jews, so there was this incredible sense of homecoming in multiple dimensions,” Ms. Silber said. “When it was over, I was grieving this character, as if she was a real person who suddenly stopped calling,” Ms. Silber said in an interview. [ Read Charles Isherwood’s review of the Broadway revival of ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ ]Now Ms. Silber is playing Tzeitel eight times a week. After Perchik leaves for Kiev, and is later exiled to Siberia, Hodel follows him. Ms. Silber recently sold the book, “After Anatevka,” to Pegasus, which plans to publish it next summer.

Source: New York Times June 29, 2016 16:07 UTC