Yiddish author and playwright Sholem Aleichem's much-loved character Tevye the Milkman, the devoted father and man of the people, is best-known from the later broadway musical 'Fiddler on the Roof'. He has been portrayed by numerous artists including Josef Herman and Anatoli Kaplan.

Created in New York, where Aronson became the leading designer for the city’s Jewish theatres, his notable designs for 'Stempenyu, The Fiddler' (1929), based on the stories of Sholem Aleichem, anticipate his famous production of 'Fiddler on the Roof' (1964), inspired by Chagall’s 1920 Moscow mural designs.