The musical with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in the Pale of Settlement of Imperial Russia in 1905. It is based on Tevye and his Daughters (or Tevye the Dairyman) and other tales by Sholem Aleichem.Who wish to marry for love each one's choice of a husband moves further away from the customs of his faith and with the edict of the Tsar that evicts the Jews from their village.