Wandering Stars

<p><b>An uproarious sprawling masterpiece by a grand Yiddish storyteller. <i>--O The Oprah Magazine</i></b></p><br> Translated in full for the first time one hundred years after its original publication the acclaimed epic love story set in the colorful world of the Yiddish theater. <i>Wandering Stars</i> spans ten years and two continents relating the adventures of Reizel and Leibel young shtetl dwellers in late nineteenth-century Russia who fall under the spell of a traveling acting company. Together they run away from home to become entertainers themselves and then tour separately around Europe ultimately reuniting in New York. <i>Wandering Stars</i> is an engrossing romance a great New York story and an anthem for the magic of the theater.