The character is best known from the fictional memoir Tevye and His Daughters (also called Tevye's Daughters, Tevye the Milkman or Tevye the Dairyman) as a pious Jewish milkman in Tsarist Russia with six troublesome daughters: Tzeitel, Hodel, Chava, Shprintze, Beilke, and Teibel.
Karakter tersebut dikenal dari memoir fiksi Tevye and His Daughters (juga disebut Tevye's Daughters, Tevye the Milkman atau Tevye the Dairyman) sebagai seorang tukang susu Yahudi di Ketsaran Rusia dengan enam putri bermasalah: Tzeitel, Hodel, Chava, Shprintze, Beilke, dan Teibel.