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Should children accept the match their parents make for them, or at least choose a partner their parents approve of? Is marriage a pillar of traditional society, or a passport to new ways of thinking and being? How do questions of love and marriage help us to understand changes in Jewish life and identity in the modern period? We will examine these questions in a broad range of stories, plays, and films spanning Europe and America from the late nineteenth century to the present day, including the American movie Fiddler on the Roof and the stories on which it is based by Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem.