Wandering Star Author:Sholom Aleichem Wandering Star is a rambling, picaresque novel about the life of Yiddish actors in Europe around 1900. This volatile world often seems like something out of the merrier parts of Dickens: a director with three wives, a sentimental actress always in search of a husband, and harmless scoundrels who are never happier than when plotting to steal each... more » other's prima donnas. Wandering Star provides a glimpse into a world that is gone, the world of East European Jewry, with its piety and poverty, its pride in learning and isolation from Western thought, its constant fear of physical attack and, nonetheless, its great resources of self-ridicule.« less