Was the "fiddler on the roof" the person a sign of hope,inspiration, a

Question: Was the "fiddler on the roof" the person a sign of hope,inspiration, a revolutionist!?
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The musical's title comes from a painting by Marc Chagall!. H did many surreal paintings based on Eastern European Jewish life, often including a fiddler!. The Fiddler is a metaphor for survival, through tradition and joyfulness, in a life of uncertainty and imbalance!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

The "fiddler on the roof" was a symbol of both the beauty and the precariousness of the lives of the Jewish characters in the play!.

Living in czarist Russia, in poverty, subject to the whims of local (Christian) government authorities who hated Jews, and the local Cossacks -- pogroms were always a possibility -- and yet in spite of the uncertainty of their futures, Tevye, his family, and his neighbors clung to their Jewish faith and each other and there was meaning and real beauty to their lives!.Www@QuestionHome@Com