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Wandering stars / Sholem Aleichem. Translated from the Yiddish by Aliza Shevrin. Foreword by Tony Kushner. Afterword by Dan Miron

Sholem Aleykhem, 1859-1916

New York, NY : Penguin Books, 2010

XXII, 457 S. ; 22 cm

Englisch (Sprache des Originals: Jiddisch)

Originally published: New York : Viking, 2009

978-0-14-311745-2 (pbk.); 0-14-311745-9 (pbk.)

2011381484

OCoLC: 567155124 (aus SWB)     

PJ5129.R2

839.133     Ähnliche Literatur

LOC-SH: Actors -- Fiction -- 19th century -- United States ; Theater, Yiddish -- Fiction -- 19th century ; New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction -- 19th century

Spanning ten years and two continents, and set in the colorful world of the Yiddish theater at the close of the nineteenth century, Wandering Stars is an epic love story by the creator of Tevye from Fiddler on the Roof. When a traveling Yiddish acting company arrives in the Russian shtetl of Holeneshti, Reizel, daughter of a poor cantor, and Leibel, son of a rich man, fall under its spell. Together they run away to become entertainers themselves, and then tour separately around Europe, ultimately reuniting in New York. Suffused with the whimsy and wistfulness that are the hallmarks of the Yiddish humorist Sholem Aleichem, Wandering Stars is an engrossing romance, a great New York story, and an anthem for the magic of the theater