Vagabond Stars: A World History of Yiddish Theater by Nahma Sandrow Yiddish Language and a multitude of dumplings

and a multitude of dumplings reflect the range of the Jewish diaspora

and cultural history of the shtetl

When the Angel of Death comes strolling through the little shtetl of Tupik one night

the golem is a character in an astonishing number of post-Holocaust Jewish-American novels and has served as inspiration for such varied figures as Mary Shelley's monster in her novel Frankenstein

Yiddish translator Tina Lunson places Jacob Dinezon's stories beside the works of his contemporaries

Vagabond Stars: A World History of Yiddish Theater by Nahma Sandrow Yiddish Language and a multitude of dumplingsVagabond Stars: A World History of Yiddish Theater is the most thorough overview of Yiddish theater. The book describes the theaters development in Europe and America from folk sources through early literary efforts, to the fine dramas, popular shows, glamorous stars and adoring fans of its heyday in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It traces not only the destruction of Yiddish theater under Hitler and Stalin, but also its