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Born into a Jewish family in New Haven, Connecticut, and raised in Flushing, Queens, New York, Bock studied the piano as a child. While a student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, he wrote the musical Big As Life, which toured the state and enjoyed a run in Chicago.
Whether Bock was writing music about a Jewish community in a shtetl in Russia in the late 19th century -- like he did for Fiddler on the Roof-- or New York of the 1920s and '30s -- like he did...
Adam Rountree/AP Photo. Jerry Bock, the composer who wrote the score for some of Broadway’s most popular musicals, including Fiddler on the Roof and Fiorello!, died Nov. 3. He was 81. Fiddler...
When composer Jerry Bock started work on a musical about a rural Jewish community at the turn of the century, few expected the show to have much commercial appeal. But Mr. Bock was penning a...
NEW YORK ( JTA) — Ever since Zero Mostel imagined himself as a rich man in the original 1964 Broadway production, “Fiddler on the Roof” has been a cultural landmark on Broadway and in the Jewish...
With a book written by Mr. Stein and based on stories by Sholem Aleichem, “Fiddler” was a musical portrait of a Jewish community under threat of expulsion by the Russian czar.
All of the characters are Jewish, except as noted: Tevye , a poor milkman with five daughters. A firm supporter of the traditions of his faith, he finds many of his convictions tested by the actions of his three oldest daughters.
