Blog #7

October 22, 2009 maxwae01

I love that when writing these Blogs, I have realized something from my own life that relates to every chapter so far. Families are different all across the world and everyone should try to be understanding of these different lifestyles. It becomes more difficult when family members break apart from their family’s traditions. Due to families usually being accepting of each other, these issues can become settled, but there are some families that shame family members when they break traditions. I am currently in the musical “Fiddler on the Roof,’ and this musical shows the difficulty for a mother and father when their daughters break normal Jewish traditions. I play Chava a young girl that falls in love with a Russian. This relationship is wrong on so many levels in the eyes of everyone else in the village. First of all finding a match for yourself was unheard of. There were matchmakers in which would arrange the matches for young girls in Jewish families. The family’s financial situation would also be a factor when deciding who the young girl would marry. There were occasions that young girls would be matched up with older men just because he had more money. The other reason Chava’s relationship with a Russian is unheard of, is because she would then be marrying outside of the religion, something that is saw to be worse than finding a match for yourself. In the production, Chava’s father even disowns her saying that because she married a Russian, she is dead to him and does not want to talk about her anymore. At the very end of the show there is a little re-kinder between her father and her, but the relationship between them will never be the same. Chava stays in Cracow with her Russian husband, while the rest of her family moves to America.

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