THE YIDDISH THEATRE IN SHALOM ALEICHEM’S LITERATURE. AN ANALYSIS OF THE NOVEL BLONDZHENDE SHTERN (WANDERING STAR)
THE YIDDISH THEATRE IN SHALOM ALEICHEM’S LITERATURE. AN ANALYSIS OF THE NOVEL BLONDZHENDE SHTERN (WANDERING STAR)

Summary/Abstract: The present paper aims to offer a starting point to reassess the writing of Shalom Aleichem for the Romanian-language reader, through a literary approach in one of the bestknown Yiddish novels, Wandering Star. The challenge of this micro-research will be both to highlight how literature offers a better understanding of the historical context, and, giving privilege to a direct lecture of the text, to establish a particular analytic itinerary: the struggle between professional and dilettante theatre, the Yiddish theatre and the JewishGerman theatre, the theatre seen as a source of financial advantages, but also as an intellectual profit; the image of the ideal actor, the difference between a naive public which is not able to see an inaccuracy on the stage, and a demanding, intolerant one before a failure during an act; the risk of losing career and vocation; being a self-educated artist; the struggle between theatre and press; breaking down the successful machinery on the stage Ŕ the clappers; meanings for the title of the novel, the assimilation problem, the osmosis careervocation.

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