Research Catalog

Title

Black fiddler [videorecording] : prejudice and the Negro / written, directed and produced by Howard Enders.

Publication

[1969]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Enders, Howard.
• Reynolds, Frank, 1923-1983.
• Piro, Richard
• Shanker, Albert.
• Stein, Joseph
• Bock, Jerry.
• Harnick, Sheldon.
• WABC-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.)

Description

• 1 videocassette (VHS, NTSC) (55 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.
• 1 reel (55 min., 1843 ft.) : sd., col. ;

Summary

This documentary focuses on a production of Fiddler on the roof performed by African-American students at a junior high school in Ocean Hill-Brownsville, and the controversy surrounding the production. Discussion of contemporary teachers' strikes in Brownsville is interwoven, featuring interviews with and speeches by Albert Shanker, head of the United Federation of Teachers. The documentary includes footage of the production of Fiddler on the roof in 1968 at Harry A. Eisman Junior High School (P.S. 275); interviews with Richard Piro, the teacher who staged the production, and with black and Jewish students at the school, their parents, and Leslie Campbell, a teacher of Afro-American Studies at P.S. 271; filmed discussions on the subject of black-Jewish relations among students, between Rabbi Allan Miller and Rev. William A. Jones, Jr., and by teachers in the New Coalition Party, which opposed the United Federation of Teachers during the Brownsville strikes; and comments by Joseph Stein, author of the book for Fiddler on the roof, after seeing the student production. The documentary explores issues of black antisemitism, racism among Jews, and cross-cultural understanding.

Series Statement

Jerome Robbins Collection

Subjects

• Black people > Relations with Jews
• Jews > Drama
• Bock, Jerry > Fiddler on the roof
• Strikes and lockouts > Teachers > New York (State) > New York
• Brownsville (New York, N.Y.)
• Documentaries and factual works
• Television
• Musical comedies > Fiddler on the roof

Genre/Form

• Documentaries and factual works.
• Television.

Note

• Time code on screen.
• There are a number of brief gaps on the tape, but very little, if any, material is missing.
• Credits at end of tape.

Event (note)

• Broadcast by WABC-TV on Aug. 7, 1969.

Funding (note)

• Preservation made possible in part with public funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-6927 JRC

OCLC

NYPT04-F75

Title

Black fiddler [videorecording] : prejudice and the Negro / written, directed and produced by Howard Enders.

Imprint

[1969]

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Series

Jerome Robbins Collection

Performer

Black fiddler. Narrated by Frank Reynolds.

Fiddler on the roof. Book by Joseph Stein. Music by Jerry Bock. Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick. Original production choreographed and directed by Jerome Robbins.

Event

Broadcast by WABC-TV on Aug. 7, 1969.

Funding

Preservation made possible in part with public funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Local Subject

Musical comedies. Fiddler on the roof.

Added Author

Enders, Howard. Director. Producer. Author

Reynolds, Frank, 1923-1983. Narrator

Piro, Richard, interviewee.

Shanker, Albert. Speaker

Stein, Joseph, interviewee.

Bock, Jerry. Composer

Harnick, Sheldon. Lyricist

WABC-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.)

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-6927 JRC

*MGZHB 20-2739 JRC