In a small shtetl in Bessarabia in the early twentieth century, a traveling Yiddish acting company comes to town. The townspeople react in unison: 'What is this? Actor-types? Comedians? Who needs them'? But for Reisel, daughter of a poor cantor, and Leibel, son of a rich man, the theatre is magic, a[...]
A comprehensive collection of best short fiction by the three classic Yiddish authors, S.Y. Abramovitsh, Sholem Aleichem, and I.L. Peretz.[...]