- Fiction, Actors, Yiddish Theater, History
The first complete translation of an epic love story by the creator of Tevye in Fiddler on the RoofNext year marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of the great Yiddish humorist Sholem Aleichem as well as the 100th anniversary of the publication of Wandering Stars, his sprawling love story spanning ten years and two continents, and set in the colorful world of the Yiddish theater.In a Russian shtetl at the end of…
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Epic, classical in form, earnest and nostalgic.
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- Author
- Sholem Aleichem
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 425
- Publisher
- Penguin USA, Inc., Viking
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780670020522
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