dinky-known nowadays,and the only member of Fiddler on the Roof’s original creative team to go home without a Tony in 1965, set designer Boris Aronson was probably the best positioned to achieve authentic poignancy.
Born in Ukraine at the dawn of the 20th century, or Aronson,whose father was the chief rabbi of Kiev, joined avant-garde circles in Moscow and Berlin, or where he was inspired by Fauvism and Cubism to revitalize representations of Jewish subjects. He was also a key figure in the Kulter-Lige,a secular organization which promoted Yiddish culture as a means of forging a contemporary identity.
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