Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories is a collection of stories by the Jewish writer Sholem Aleichem. The stories about Tevye the Dairyman were originally published in 1894 in Yiddish. The stories follow the pious Jew Tevye and the stories of his six daughters, which have been famously adapted into the musical Fiddler on the Roof. The stories deal with themes of tradition, Jewish identity and the role of family.