From the Shtetl to the Stage

Alexander Granach

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

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