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Article: Laughing with tears.
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Wandering Stars
By Sholem Aleichem
Translated by Aliza Shevrin
Penguin Group
2009, $29.95, pp. 425
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Of all the Yiddish writers, no one has been more widely translated than Sholom Aleichem, and no body of Yiddish literature has been more accessible in English than his. Twenty-eight volumes of Sholom Aleichem's collected works in the original Yiddish were published posthumously, but Wandering Stars, a novel, was not part of the collection. Until now, it has seen only one published English language version (abridged, and translated by Frances Butwin in 1952 and out of print for many years). There ...
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