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Many of you must have enjoyed the ersatz (or kitsch) view of Jewish traditional life in ‘Fiddler on the roof’. Topol banging and roaring out ‘Tradition’ is hugely enjoyable. But it is more than a good actor and a vigorous song. It is an appeal to the past; not nostalgia for the past as a dead thing—like Queen Anne—but as a living continuity.

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