From the Shtetl to the Stage: The Odyssey of a Wandering Actor

ISBN-13: 9781138524002 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 304 str.

Alexander Granach

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Alexander Granach, who died while he was acting on Broadway in 1945, brilliantly relates the remarkable story of his unlikely path from a poverty-stricken, rough-and-tumble childhood to success on the German stage

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Introduction to the Transaction Edition
Acknowledgements
IBear the Name of a Friendly Man
How I Came into This World on a Rainy Night
How I Was Exorcised of a Little Toohless Goblin
My Big Brothers, or One Is Missing
Mama Dreams
Two Families--Four Friendships
The First Victim
He Could Not Read the Bible, But Niether Had He Heard the Sermon of the Village Priest
We Go Out into the Wide World, but It Wears the Same Face
The Village Spits Us Out
The County Seat Horodenka--Fierce Competition
My Rabbi-Teacher, Schimshale from Milnitz, for Whom You Would Do Absolutely Anything
Perhaps My First Part
Moische, Does One Smash Windows?
Our Family Grows Smaller, Our Poverty Greater
My Brother Schmiel, with the Rich Imagination, Comes Home
Everyone Fights with the Weapons He Has
People and the Awakening of Love in Horodenka
Away from Home It Is Cold--but Instructive
Curiosity
It Is Good to Have a Big Brother When You Are Far from Home
Malka
The Theater
A Dog, a Cart, and a Woman
First Steps in Berlin
The Word
There is Something in a Name
And the Crooked Shall be Straight
Alas for a Beautiful World!
Almost a Stranger in My Native Land
The Prospect for the Common Man
Let People See What People Are Like!
"We'll March Right into Sunny Italy!"
Roads Always Lead Somewhere
Life Comes to Meet You Halfway
A Promise That I Shall Always Keep
"Home, Home--There's Where a Welcome Waits You!"
A Man Is Not a Tree
Interrupted Rehearsals
Shylock

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Alexander Granach