Skrzypek na dachu - Fiddler on the Roof in Polish – was first performed in Poland on May 5, 1983, twenty years after its enormous success on Broadway. Beyond being a popular hit, however, the piece has come to take on and create certain historical references for a lost Jewish Poland, offering a kind of soft exposure to Jewishness and Jewish trauma to willing audiences, while in some sense simultaneously re-narrativizing Jewishness in Polish public memory through its performance. This talk explores the ways Skrzypek na dachu might be seen as a particularly palatable totem for Jewish culture and history in Poland, while examining how its historical longevity and continued ability to sell out performances also attest to how it performs a safe historical narrative to the Polish public and offers a brush with embodied “Jewish” experience in both familiar and complex ways.