"Spanning ten years and two continents, and set in the colorful world of the Yiddish theater at the close of the ninetheeth century, Wandering Stars is an epic love story by the creator of Tevye from Fiddler on the Roof." -- from back cover.

Text originally pub. in two separate volumes titled: The Old Country : collected stories of Sholom Aleichem (1946) and Tevye's Daughters (1949).

Sholem-Aleichem's collection of stories involves the most beloved and well-known character in Yiddish literature, Tevye the Dairyman. Tevye, the vivacious, Bible-misquoting hero, eventually became the basis for the Broadway musical, Fiddler on the Roof.

A collection of stories, sketches, monologues, and satire by the Yiddish humorist, showing adults and children in the act of being themselves in many situations--at school, at work, on holidays, and in railroad cars.