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, and they immediately fall
under its spell. Fleeing their small town, they run off together
with the acting company but soon become separated from each other.
Reisel goes on to become a star on the concert stage, and Leibel a
sensation on the theatrical stage. They take new names - Reisel
becoming Rosa Spivak, and Leibel becoming Leo Rafalesko - and
repeatedly try to meet, but they are kept apart by their
aspirations and successes, and by the interventions of a motley
cast of impresarios, who exploit them for their own enrichment.
They are wandering stars, shooting from stage to stage, from city
to city, touring all the major European capitals and eventually
reaching New York, a city of dreams shattered and fulfilled, of
romance thwarted and consummated. It is the journey of a lifetime,
a journey played out in every generation, and within every life,
and Sholem Aleichem captures it with uncommon poignancy and
richness, and with the humor, whimsy, and wistfulness that are his
hallmarks.
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