Product Description: In a Russian shtetl at the end of the 19th century, Reisel, a poor girl, and Leibel, a rich boy, run away with a traveling theater company. The young lovers are quickly parted. Reisel goes on to become a famous concert star; Leibel, a theatrical sensation...read more
9780670020522 | Viking Pr, February 5, 2009, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The first complete translation of an epic love story by the creator of Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof Next 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.
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9781574535921 | Audio Literature, December 30, 2009, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: In a Russian shtetl at the end of the 19th century, Reisel, a poor girl, and Leibel, a rich boy, run away with a traveling theater company.
Tells the story of a poor Jew and a wealthy Gentile who exchange places for year, exploring the prejudice and fear that they encountered while in their 'new' identities
9780253304018 | Indiana Univ Pr, December 1, 1991, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Tells the story of a poor Jew and a wealthy Gentile who exchange places for year, exploring the prejudice and fear that they encountered while in their 'new' identities
9780684192376 | Atheneum, October 1, 1991, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Five stories depict families observing the rituals and traditions of Jewish holidays together
9780689710346 | Reprint edition (Atheneum, April 1, 1985), cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Seven stories, two of which appear in English for the first time, evoke the warmth, joy, humor, and sadness of the holidays of the Jewish year